- Fifty debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide in the two weeks since CM Y.S.R took office.
- The government's offer to pay up to Rs 50,000 to a suicide victim's family may have triggered off some of these.
- Some natural deaths could have been reported as suicides, to get the money.
- Rural debt is estimated at Rs 11,000 crore. Now, banks have been directed to slow down their loan recovery process.