Over the last four years, the number of farmer suicides has doubled in Maharashtra — from 6,268 farmer suicides, between 2011 and 2014, to 11,995 between 2015 to 2018, according to a Right To Information (RTI) reply by the Maharashtra revenue department. A lofty insurance scheme initiated in December 2018 for farmers does not cover suicides thereby defeating its very purpose. And this may just be the tip of the iceberg.
