Thanegaon, Maharashtra: Missed the waiver bus
Mehak Kasbekar -
Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:55 PM
This farmer wishes he had taken a loan. He fulfills every other criteria he says. 60-year-old Bharat Rao Revatkar has a meager two acre plot along the national highway 8 that connects Nagpur to Amravati in Vidarbha. The Rs 5,000-Rs 7,000 that he makes every four months is not enough to meet his daily expenses of food and farming inputs so he takes up odd jobs like working on someone else’s farm and as a day labourer for constructing the highway. He and his family tills the land in an old fashioned way with two bulls and as far as he is concerned will be doing so for the rest of his life. He never took a loan because he couldn’t afford to repay. He wishes now he had. It was his only chance at making his financial distress a little easier to stomach.