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NGOs may fund farmer's daughter's weddings to prevent suicides
Updated On: 26 February, 2018 09:40 AM IST | Pune | Chaitraly Deshmukh
The main reason behind farmers committing suicide is the inability to repay the huge loans taken for their daughters' weddings, believes the Charity Commissioner, Maharashtra
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The main reason behind farmers committing suicide is the inability to repay the huge loans taken for their daughters' weddings, believes the Charity Commissioner, Maharashtra. And so, in a bid to curb the increasing number of deaths, The Office of the Charity Commissioner has started an initiative, as part of which it plans to rope in trusts and NGOs to organise mass marriages (for children of farmers) and bear the costs.


