Thursday, April 13, 2006

CPI Demands Financial Package

April 11, 2006

CPI Demands Financial Package.

Talking to SirsaNews at Ellenabad, Comrd. Swarn Singh Wirk, Distt. Gen. Secretary CPI, said that a financial assistance package as being proposed to be announced for 4 Southern states, should also be extended to the farmers of Punjab & Haryana. He said that the financial health of farmers of these two northern states is also no good. Farmers in these two states had also been committing suicides since last many years.
He said that in a single distt. of Punjab, neighboring to Sirsa, there are cases of more than 100 suicides by its farmers since last few years.
He was Quoting on the following statement of Mr Sharad Pawar: { New Delhi: The Centre will fund a financial package to prevent farmer suicides in four states, said Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.}

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