Tell us your plan to tackle farmer suicides in 4 weeks: SC to Centre

The Supreme Court has even earlier pulled up the government over the farmer suicide issue.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Union government to submit a detailed plan to tackle the issues of farmers' suicide across the country in four weeks and termed the matter as 'important and serious', said reports.

The apex court had on March 3 expressed grave concern over farmers' suicide due to indebtedness and crop failure and said it felt the government was going in a 'wrong direction' in tackling the real problem.

A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar had said that paying compensation to the families of such victims 'post-facto' was not the real solution.

"This issue is of extreme importance. Tentatively, we feel that you are going in a wrong direction. Farmers take loans from banks and when they are unable to repay, they commit suicide. The remedy to the problem is not to pay money to farmers after the suicide, but you should have schemes to prevent this," the bench had said on March 3.

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Additional Solicitor General P S Narasimha, appearing for the Centre, had then told the bench that the government has initiated many schemes for farmers and the 2015 crop insurance scheme would drastically reduce such fateful incidents.

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