Bangalore: HD Ranganath, Congress MLA from Kunigal in Karnataka’s Tumakuru, known as for particular incentives to be given to girls who marry younger. farmers. He has written to CM Siddaramaiah, asking him to think about proposals to deal with what he termed as a rising drawback throughout the farming group within the state.
“We’re in a scenario the place nobody desires to associate with rural farmers,” Ranganath instructed reporters. Wednesday. The issues he expressed have additionally been raised in different components of the nation, together with the Vidarbha area of Maharashtra.
He stated these issues had been conveyed to the Prime Minister to make sure that such provisions had been included within the subsequent nationwide funds to be submitted on March 6.
This proposal is known as the “Seventh Assure,” which follows the “Sixth Assure,” which offers land titles to landless farmers.
Ranganath is taken into account an all-weather supporter of deputy CM DK Shivakumar.
Though each the central and state governments connect nice significance to the struggles of farmers, with guarantees of doubling their incomes and respectful references like ‘annadatas’, the mounting agricultural woes proceed to extend uncertainty of their non-public lives. Ranganath Stated.
He added that many younger farmers, who at the moment are approaching the age of 30, are unable to discover a bride. “We’re asking whether or not we will present some type of incentive beneath the regulation.”
He added that this might be modeled on the Congress authorities’s current ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ scheme beneath which feminine family heads are entitled to monetary help of Rs 2,000 per thirty days. The Congress authorities has to date given 5 ensures, costing the exchequer Rs 52,000 crore yearly.
Fluctuations in market costs, rising stress on land tenure, declining agricultural product costs, and altering local weather are including to the challenges for farmers throughout the nation. Based on authorities knowledge, 414 farmers died by suicide in Karnataka within the first 9 months of the present monetary 12 months (until December 31, 2025).
Karnataka Agriculture Minister N. Charvarayaswamy, responding to a query within the winter session of the state meeting, stated the state has recorded 2,846 farmer suicides up to now 33 months. With out mentioning the precise causes for the deaths, he stated 1,254 farmer suicides had been recorded within the state in 2023-24 and 1,178 in 2024-25.
(Edited by Amrutanshu Arora)
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