{"id":42204,"date":"2016-03-30T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42204"},"modified":"2016-03-31T04:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:49:52","slug":"suicide-farmers-given-low-damage-reality-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/suicide-farmers-given-low-damage-reality-sc","title":{"rendered":"Suicide by farmers given low damage is a reality: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42174\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42174\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42174\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/goa-land-act-sc-dismisses-pleas-challenging-validity-amendments\/2016_3img_201634141-ll\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Supreme Court\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Supreme Court &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Supreme Court &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42174 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Suicide by farmers given low damage is a reality: SC\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/2016_3img_201634141-ll.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suicide by farmers given low damage is a reality: SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is a reality that low compensation paid to calamity-hit farmers was leading some of them to commit suicide, the Supreme Court observed today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a reality. It needs to be corrected. It&#8217;s not against one government or other government. The central government always says they are doing good things but some people are committing suicide, we all know that,&#8221; a bench headed by Justice M B Lokur said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench, also comprising Justice N V Ramana, made the observation while examining various aspects of relief given to drought-hit farmers during the hearing on a PIL which seeks urgent implementation of guidelines for areas hit by natural calamity.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand, who refuted the allegations on behalf of the Centre, said there was no &#8220;arbitrariness&#8221; in deciding compensation for crop losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no arbitrariness and the Centre has framed guidelines for distribution of compensation to the drought-hit farmers,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for petitioner NGO Swaraj Abhiyan alleged arbitrariness on the part of the patwaris (officials who maintain land records) in calculating the compensation for the crop loss.<\/p>\n<p>Psephologist and political activist Yogendra Yadav, a key functionary of the NGO, informed the court that there are instances where two brothers having adjoining land with same dimensions and having suffered similar crop loss due to a natural calamity, getting differential compensation.<\/p>\n<p>While one brother gets Rs 16,000 as compensation, the other gets a meager Rs 160 for the same kind of loss, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The recently-launched flagship scheme of the NDA government &#8216;Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana&#8217; also came up for discussion, with the bench asking the petitioner whether it could be relevant in such a situation and whether it could be beneficial to the farmers hit by drought.<\/p>\n<p>Bhushan said in Chhattisgarh, a similar scheme was launched but alleged that it appeared to him as a big scam as farmers were not given the benefit.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a reality that low compensation paid to calamity-hit farmers was leading some of them to commit suicide, the Supreme Court observed today. &#8220;This is a reality. 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