India requires smart marginal farmers,villagers,and agrarians who always keep working hard, that too, on urgent basis, to avoid suicides.

India requires smart marginal farmers,villagers,and agrarians who always keep working hard, that too, on urgent basis, to avoid suicides.

In 2008, we were working  on a publication, that was dealing with suicides of farmers in Vidarbah, i.e. around Nagpur. I always, said, "Let my high impact publication go in to dust-bean, let me publish on WWW so that at least millions read that article...than putting that article into copyrighted or patented and read only by few scholars...." we worked day and nigh and published this article: http://www.indianmba.com/Faculty_Column/FC703/fc703.html and also other articles in which we suggested there should be 24X 7 guiding Farmers TV channels in local languages, for Indian public 50% of whom were dependent on agrarian jobs at that time. After this article I got almost 100 calls everyday on Agrarian Business Guidance, I directed them to Mr. Thosar or the place where they can get near their place...what a satisfaction....however, after 2010...slowly it stopped as people came to know where to get guidance and such facilities were known to them and governments worked on it...policies are/ were there but knowledge of it was unknown even to Ph.D.'s in India that too in Agrarian field.... at that time....a shame .....we literally cried sometimes. 

Any person having heart, conscience and soul intact, if goes 15 km out side Nagpur, will hear a case or two in every village....whose heart will not burn? No benefit reaches directly to the people who really need it, and if reaches, they have ....so many documents to show....so much formality to do that....finally the family thinks better....avoid Sarakari Help....i.e. any help from Government...if they don't trust us...Now, when, misuse it told to them...they say, "If a person can misuse it like us why we would be dying of hunger here.... Rich farmers having all these documents get benefit within few days, while we, as we don't understand many thing we don't get it....smart workers are they the rich and decorative farmers......we're hard workers...teach "shyanpan"=knowledge to them, not to us..."...

We're speechless at this point. 

Now, everyone is talking about smart cities, which I already suggested India requires 300 cities of the size of Nagpur, as India has 3 million square kilometers area....and those cities should be job providers unlike a person from corner of Arunachal Pradesh goes to Mumbai or Delhi who can't get a holiday of more than 15 days, as he requires 7 days to reach his village there... Some one from USA said, "Our dollar drainage is in New York, you pour unlimited stuff it will engulfed in no time....which are your cities?" My friend immediately said, "Mumbai and Delhi." We laughed a lot. He said, "In what way people earn is immaterial but ultimately it lands here and gets multiplied toooo..."

Coming to PURA that is Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's dream, we require Smart Villagers, Farmers, Agrarians...as they are already hardworking....

We require combination of Hard Workers+Smart Workers both, otherwise, only smart people ...we know what they can do....but if .... our Indian Farmers, Agrarians becomes smart who are already proved hard workers they won't be committing suicides.... rest of the survey on what are the reasons ans where the work is required we already have put in the publications.... Mr. Shriram Thosar the co-writer literally used this knowledge that we are collecting and let reach to grass-root level....

More than 10,000 recorded suicides....and lot of show-offs from lot of corners of the country but at ground level....Zero Act.

Hence, we devoted lot of time to understand what exactly is happening....In fact, uncle Mr. Shriram went to lot of farmers and offered lot of education about....lot of things.....my father Mr. Manohar did the same...as much as he could....The reason being, if we required to go to village none were willing to come, for longer than a week time....as there is hardship there, but, if someone wants to go to big city/ cities...all were willing...Why people are afraid of earthing there hands in earth like farmers do.....the earth doesn't have only Viruses and Bactria that are willing to kill us....it helps us grow our food.....something is wrong in this thought process....that soil spoils your hands...no...in fact, soil gives us in many-folds...is our experience.

Why there are selfie contests? Why me, mine, my marketing, my this and my that contests and selfish and vanity competitions are there? 

Why not 'help farmers' contest is there? Why not help refugees from war ridden places, earthquake disturbed Nepal,.....kinds of things are there? Even TRP rating of the TV should be based on how much ground work they have done in  such situations....all news papers too....media should be more responsible than....just...media...we require effective media...even it could be part of CSR activities....could be part of 15G act of income tax to pay fees of a child who is por and needy....

The whole system has become selfish... it seems.... when we heard the agony and pains of many such farmers....and still keep listening to their sorrows. 

We need to be broad minded in globalized economy, and "Stop saying inclusive growth is not charity"......."We should go proactive in making inclusive growth"......otherwise, we would look parasites and cannibalistic in the global economy who talk for trillions or may be quadrillions in next decade, but when it comes to our own human resources we don't have even thousands or millions to let each marginal farmer, agrarian, villager grow, become self-reliant, smart too, to their hard work pay fruits. 

Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude, Nagpur, India