Amar Chand Rajput, 50
Threw himself before a running train near his village on
January 26, 2007
Ramasre Rajpoot with his wife showing the photograph of his father at Pava Village in Uttar Pradesh)
Place: Pava in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba district
Loan: Rajput borrowed Rs 15,000 from the UP Co-operative Land Development Bank and Rs 30,000 from the village moneylender.
Landholding: Four acres. Agriculture is Rajput’s sole occupation.
Family: Wife, two daughters and son Ram Asrey, 21.
Waiver: Waiver on the bank loan but not for the money taken from the village money-lender.
Family’s future: BJP leader Kalyan Singh gave the family a cash relief of Rs 1 lakh which has been deposited in the name of his two daughters and which their brother says will help pay the wedding expenses whenever the two get married.
— Virendranath Bhatt

Ramchandra Vithoba Wate, 34
Committed suicide on
February 24, 2008 by
consuming insecticide
(Ramchandra Wate’s widow Manda in her one-room house in Hirdi village)
Place: Hirdi village in Wardha district
Landholding: Six acres, non-irrigated. Grew cotton, soyabean (kharif) and grams (rabi).
Loan: Rs 23,800 taken from Bank of India. Wate was also depressed over crop failure, ironically, due to good rains since the Wates’ land gets waterlogged.
Family: Wife Manda, 30, sons Akash, 13 and Kiran, 9 and daughter Priya, 10.
Income: Wife Manda works as farmhand earning Rs 40 a day during crop season.
Waiver: The family will not benefit since they own six acres, one acre more than the norm for waiver eligibility.
Family’s future: Wate’s wife Manda says she will have to do something for her kids but says she has no option but to work as farm labour.
— Vivek Deshpande