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Tripura CM urges agricultural scientists to stop farmers’ suicides

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Manik Sarkar

Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar urged the scientific community in the agriculture and allied sectors to take suitable measures to stop farmers’ suicides in the country.

“During the regime of both Congress and BJP led central governments, farmers’ suicides remained unabated. Only the scientists and experts can boldly ask the government to rectify the faulty agriculture and related policies,” Sarkar said while addressing the 22nd regional council meeting of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

He said: “During the last decade, over three lakh farmers have committed suicide. During the first 100 days of Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government, over 6,000 farmers killed themselves across the country.”

Urging the scientists to attract the young generation to agriculture and allied sectors, Sarkar said that in recent years over 232,000 people quit the agriculture and allied sectors.

“Without development of agriculture, industry cannot flourish. Government must change its approach towards agriculture and allied sectors to stop farmers suicides,” he said while criticising the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s modified land acquisition bill.

The chief minister said the quality of research work, scientific studies and experts’ evaluation of farming sectors in India is the best in the world, but unfortunately the execution is extremely bad due to the faulty policies of the government.

Agricultural scientists, experts, research scholars, vice-chancellors of many agricultural universities, specialists in farming, horticulture, fisheries, animal resources, and educational institutions from across the country took part in the two-day session which concluded on May 23.

Ministers and top officials of the eight northeastern states also attended the event.

ICAR’s director general S. Ayyappan in his address said that with favourable climate and topography, the northeastern states could double agricultural production in the next five to six years.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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