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Indebtedness is one of the serious issues leading to farmers’ suicides. Discuss reasons and suggest solutions.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The National Crime Records Bureau's Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India for 2023 records 10,786 deaths in the farming sector — 4,690 cultivators and 6,096 agricultural labourers — over half in Maharashtra. Debt is the proximate trigger in most inquests, but sociologically it is the point at which a transformed agrarian structure becomes unbearable for…

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