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' GOVERNML::.NT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (AGRICULTURE II BRANCH)
To,
1 . All Divisional Comm;.;sioners in the State of Punjar., \ 2. All Deputy Commissioners in the State of Punjab 3. All Senior Superintendents of Police in the State of Punjab. 4. All Chief Agricultural Officers in the State of Punjab.
Memo No .2/7/2008-Agri.2(10)/6398-6401 Chandigarh, dated, the:23.07.2015
Subject: Relief for Families of Farmers/Farm Labourers Affected by Suicides -Policy Regarding .
Concerned with the tragic incidents of suicides by farmers and farm
labourers in the recent past in various parts of the State, ~he Govt. constituted a
Committee to formulate measures to deal with the situation arising out ·of such
suicides. In its report the Comm .tee observed that the State agriculture is facing a
crisis both in terms of its economic and environmental sustain ioility of agriculture.
The increasing cost of inputs and marginal increases in Minimum Support Price have squeezed the margins of the farmers. The private investments in irrigation .111frastructure have increased manifold ·during the. last two decades due to
continuously depleting water table and consequent high cos .:; on deepening of.
tubewells <md replacement of centrifugal pumps with submersible pump sets.
Consequently, the farming sector of State is heavily indebted.
~? 0 The perform:nce of agricultural sector has ,;,so influenced the
economy of agricultural labourers who are witnessing a severe e~onomic squeeze
and their incomes are not sufficient to meet even the subsistence expenditure. The
high inflation rate , poor public health facilities and high cost of private health
serviCEfS and education have fur. 1er aggravated the proble~s of rural society. As a
consequence, the economic distress in the farm sector is il1 ~reasing leading to
some farmers and farm labourers to extreme step of committins·suicides.
3 0 As an endeavor to provide relief in case of suicidal d~aths of farmers
and farm labourers due to indebtedness in the State, the Gover · ment of Punjab has
p1 epa red tl1is Policy framework which envisages to provide a package as a measure of support the distressed family. For the purposeL of this policy, the
'Farmer' means a person cultivating agricultural land (as owner or tenant or sharf;)
sropper) and 'Farm Labower' IT'~ans a person principally eng<., .Jed with a farmer in
the capacity of a labourer on hire or exchange and who get t1is wages in cash or
kind in connection with the agricultural occupation he performs.
4.0 The Policy frame" nrk provides as under:
A) Financial Assistance:
• To mitigate the sense of economic insecurity, monetary assistance should be provided -on priority basis. A sum of Rs. 3.00 lac !:;hould be given afler
the reported death to the next of the kin with a view to tide over the
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financial distress of the family because of the death of the bread earner of the family;
• Revolving Fund for Rl• ief to the suicide affected families should be
created with State Revenue Department to ensure ~imely relief to the affected families;
• 25% of relief amount should be paia to the mother and balance to the wife , if mother is not alive then full relief to be paid to the wife;
• If wife remarries outside the family or is not alive, then ·to the children; and
in case the deceased is un-married/has no children, it shcruld be paid to
the parents in case they are dependent on the deceased;
• A Committee would be ccnstituted to receive and ve1 ify documents and disburs~ment of assistance with Deputy Commissioner as Chairman and Chief Medical Officer, Senior Superintendent of Police, Sarpanch of
victims' village as Members and Chief Agricultural Officer as a Member Convener; and
• The Committee would decide the matter within a period of one month
from the date of receipt of completed application. The application should
be submitted within a period of three months from the date of suicide. It
should be submitted to Chief Agricultural Officer, or the SDM concerned.
All such applications when~ver received, shall be forwnrded to CAO, who should process these for consideration of-the Committee as per above.
B) Rehabilitation •
• The officials of Revenue and Agriculture Departmer ts would work with
the distressed far:-1ilies for at least one year or as long as"it is necessary
to bring the family out of distress. These officials/employees would guide
the deceased families regarding agricultural technology. inputs use.
diversification, marketing etc.; and ~ • Preference wou!d be QPien to the affected fam1hes 1n ~ rov1dtng subs1d1zed
inputs under various development programmes of t1qriculture and allied
departments including Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY), Nat1onal
Food Security Mission (NFSM), National Horticulture Mission (NHivl) , etc
C) Preventive Measures
• The State Government has constituted District level and block level
Bankers Committee as per Reserve Bank of India guidelines under Lead Bank Scheme. The District Collector is the Chairman of District Level Committee and ·. ead :>i ;trict Manager of the district is the Chairman of
the Block . Level Bankers' Committee. All the banks operattng the
blocks/district including the district central cooperative banks and RRB.
Block Development Officers, Technical Officers in the· block such as
Extension Officers for '\griculture, Industries and Cooperatives are held at
quarterly intervals. These Committees shall also ·vork as Institutional Finance Promotion Committees (IFPC) at block <ctnd district level to promote and extend institutioqal credit to thE"; farmers. ThesE:
Committees,. apart from monitoring advancement of institutional credit to
farmers as per Oistnct Credit Plan, would chalk 'lUt programmes for
expansion of such credit in their respective areas of JUrisdiction ;
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.. • For improving the econo.my of farmers, the State would assist .in creating
cool-chain infrastructure and modern processing and storage facilities to
provide opportunities ln the production of high value livestock products, fruits and vegetables and fisheries;
• A mass campaign would be launched by the state government to create work culture among the rural youth which would reduce the menace of . . drug abuse. For this purpose, drug de-addition centres should be set-up;
• Likewise a mass campaign would be launched by the .State Government
to create aw~reness and persuade farmers community to desist from
unproductive and avoidable ostentatious spending on social functions
such as marriages·, Bhogs etc.; and
• Implementation of Atta-Dal Scheme.
D) Special Initiatives by Department of Agriculture
• Promotion of Dairy Farming for small farmers through induction of animals and creation \lf re.lated infrastructure viz. modern sheds for
animals, milking machines, bulk milk coolers etc. at suhsidized cost;
• Establishment of Integrated Buffalo Development Centre~ (IBDCs) for
improvement of Buffalo Breed to improve their productivity and thereby
the income of milk producers.
• Promotion of subsidiary occupations including Bee-Reeping, ·Fisheries, Goatery and Piggery by providing subsidy on creation of required infrastructure under various central and State Plan schemes;
• Reduction in cost of production by facilitating of setttng up Agricultural Machinery Centres in Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies for
providing equipment on custom hiring basis;
• Interest subvention of 3 percent for Crop loans to provide c;redit at a lower
interest rate i.e. 4 perce 1t; ~
• Facilitating the farmers in food-grain production and ' cultivat!on of fruits and. vegetables by providing appropriate technology and subsidized· inputs through coverage under National Food Security Mission (NFSM) and National Horticulture Mission (NHM);
• Promotion of cultivation of vegetables in peri-urban an~as and also under
Net House;
• Organization of Farmers into producers companies to start small scale
farm-gate processing· of agricultural produce and its rr.arketing; and
• Awareness Campaign for propagation of latest agriculture technologies
for improving productivity and reducing cost of production through timely
and adequate supply of inputs and their efficient use.
E) Implementation
• A Committee for providing Relief in _Suicidal Death: (CFSD) would be
constituted with Financial Commissioner, Revenue- as Chairman and
Financial Commissioner, Development, Pfincipal Secretary (Finance) and
Principal Secretary Power, as Members and Director, Disaster
Management as Member Secretary to coordinat : and monitor the
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implementation of Policy. The Committee may co-opt any other officer as member or can seek attendance of any officer for its efficient implementation.
• District level committees would be constituted under Deputy
Commissioners of the districts and should be responsible for verification of claims and disbursement of aid.
5.0 The State Government in the Department of Rural Development and
Panchayats would recommend and pursue with the Government of India to allqw
coverage of farm labour under MNREGA. Further, the State Government in the
Department of Revenue ~auld urge upon Government of India to share the cost of
providing relief and rehabilitation and preventive measures as outlined above on
50:50 basis.
6.0 The expenditure on 3ccount of provision of financial assistance shall
be met from the State Budget and for all other interventions it will b~ met from the
existing schemes.
7 0 This issues with the approval.of State Finance D
vide their I.D. No.S/21/2015-1 FE3/530390/1- of71h July, 2015.
E11dst. No. No. 2/7/08-Agri.2(10)/6402-6415
A copy is of the above is forwarded. to the following for information and necessary action :
1. Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab.
ii. Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, Animal ·Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fi~heries, Punjab.
iii ~inancial Commissioner, Cooperation, Punjab.
iv. Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Punjab
v. Principal Secretary, Food & Civil Supplies, Punjab
vi . Principal Secretary, Finance, Punjab
vii. Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Punjab
viii. Principal Secretary, School Ed_ucation, Punjab
ix. Secretary, Rural Development and Panch~yats , Punjab
x. Director General of PoliGe, Punjab
xi Commissioner Agriculture, Punjab
xii. Officer lncharge, Le1d "Bank
xiii. Director Agriculture, Punjab
xiv. Director Horticulture, Punjab
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.Government of Punjab
Department of Agriculture (Agriculture~ll Branch)
ORDER
In pursuance of the Policy for relief to families of
farmers/ farm labourers affected by suicides is:sued by the !
Department of Agricylture, Government of Punjab vide its letter ./
v No. 2/7/2008:.Agri.2(10)/6398-6415 of 23.07.2015, it is decided to ,._.t. {7 I -1 ""'
constitute a Committee comprising the followin-g · to oversee the ,.
provision of relief in suicidal deaths:
i) Additional Chief Secretary/ Financial Chairman Commissioner Revenue
ii) Additional' Chief Secretary (Dev) Member iii) Pri,ncipCJI Secretary, Finance. Member iv) Principal Secretary, Pow.er Member v) Director Disaster Management Member Secretary
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The terms of refrence of the Committee would be as/ .
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i) to arrange and provide requisite funds for relief under ~ l 1
the policy; . "\{
ii) to review implementation of the policy to·provide relief to the affected famil ies of farmers and farm labourers who commit suicide in various distri cts of the State; and
iii) to issue appropriate advice/guidelines to the District Level Committees and ~he . Deputy ~ommissioners to ensure full compliance of the policy~l in darryihg out ~ts objectives.
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3.0 The Committee may meet as often as m~y be required I
but it shall meet atleast once in a quarter. ·
Chandigarh, dated Suresh Kumar, lAS I /
Additional Chief Secretary (Dev.) and .~ l\ July 2015 Principai Secretary to Governm~nt of Punjab,
Department of Agrfculture
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A copy is forwarded to the following to t information
and necessary action:
1. Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab 2. Principal Secretary , Finance , Punjab 3. Principal Secretary, Power, Punjab 4. Director, Disaster Management, punjab 5. Commisioner, Agriculture, Punjab 6. Director, Agricuiture, Punjab 7. Director Horticulture, Punjab 8. PS to ACS(D)- for information of ACS(D) .
Joint Seer~. ALiculture. I
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Government of Punjao Department of Agriculture
(Agriculture-11 Bra.nch)
ORDER
In pursuance of the Policy for relief to families of
farmers/ farm labourers affected by suicides issued by the
Department of Agriculture, Government of Punjab vide its letter
No. 2/7/2008-Agri.2(1 0)/6398-6415 of 23.07.2015, it is decided to
constitute District Level Committees as following :- (~....
i) Deputy Commissioner of the Chairman concerned District
ii) Senior Supdt. of Police Member iii) Chief Medical Of{icer Member iv) Sarpanch of Victim's Village Member v) Chief Agriculture Officer Member Secretary
lhe terms of reference of the Committee ~auld be asA~
following:- · '-\j i) to receive and verify docum~nts for disbursement of
relief/ assistance as per the ·policy issued by Government vide its .letter No. 2/7/2008Agri.2(1 0)/6398-o6415 of 23.07.2015;
ii) to resolve grievances of the families of farmers/farm labourers affected by suicide's, if any;
iii) to ensure all requisite riecessary action in addition to provision of relief for effective implementation of the policy particularly with. regard to rehabilitation of the affected families; · ·
iv) to ensure preventive measures to avoid and checl< .... suicides in future and provision of assistance under sch,~mes and programmes of various departments as per the policy; and
v) any other measure as may. be considered necessary to ensure effective implementation .. of the p0licy to carry out its objective. ..
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2. 0 The committee would decide the matter as may be i
brought be·fore it with in a period of one month .
from the date of Ii
receipt of such matter/application. The affected .families would be iI
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required to submit their applications within a period of three j i
months from the date of suicide to the Chief Agriculture Officer or !
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the SDM concerned. All such applications wherever received :
should be forwarded to Chief Agriculture. Officers who should ·
process these applications and place them before the Committee
for its consideration.
3 .0 The Committee should consider· these applications/
matters as may be placed before it in its tota li ty to ensure that ~J i
the affected families are provided requisite assi~tance in free and
fair manner.
The Committee may meet as oftt3n as required, but it
shall meet atleast once in a month.
Chandigarh, dated Suresh Kumar, lAS .. ~- ~-!\ July 2015 Additional Chief Secretary (Dev) and
Principal Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Agriculture
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Endst. No. 2/7/2008-Agri.2 (1 0)/ 6 -~ $~ - Dated: d.t--;/7 r)~ ~ A copy is forwarded to the following for information
and necessary action: '4
1. Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Punjab, o · 2. Financial Comrnissioner, Rural Develdpment Ul
Panchayats, Punjab 3 .· Principal Secretary, Health & Fami.ly We:lfare, Punjab, 4. All Deputy Cominissiqners in the ~tate of PunJab 5 . A.ll Senior Superintendents of Police in the State of
Punjab
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6. Commissioner, Ag riculture, Punjab, 7. Director Agriculture, Punjab 8. Director Horticulture, Punjab 9 . . All Chief Agriculture Officers in the State of Punjab 'I 0. PS to ACS(D)- for information of ACS(D) .
. Joint Secre*1 griculture
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