Why don't farmer suicides affect India any more?

Farmer suicides have become common in the last decade. But no minister in charge has resigned. No administration has been overhauled. No major agrarian policy change has taken place. For example, by December 8, 2015 the total number of suicides in Maharashtra's drought-hit Marathwada region was 1,024. Of the eight districts in Marathwada, Beed - the district from which the state's women and child minister Pankaja Munde hails - has had the highest number of farmer suicides - 286. Government officials, as usual, claimed suicides due to crop loss and debt burden were only 630, while the others were due to illness or family disputes. They didn't deny that all deaths were suicides, and said that 616 "eligible families" had been paid Rs 1 lakh compensation.

How much would that sum help in making up for the death of a bread winner in such a situation?

Beed's district collector admitted the rising number of suicides "reflects the fact that our efforts have failed to yield results". Both the minister and the local administration refused to blame the money-lenders or banks, blaming "crop failure" for the suicides, while district commissioner Umakant Dhangat admitted, "Since this is happening for long, it will take time."

Why has the government and administration allowed it to happen for so long? Why haven't more tanks, wells and pumps been built and installed? Why haven't the banks provided financial support if the very high interest rates of moneylenders have lead farmers to suicide?

Surely, public funding should be a priority in such a situation, apart from relatively meagre compensation? Isn't a major cause the genetically modified seeds that cannot be harvested like the earlier seeds that could be retained for some years, especially in drought prone areas? The high cost of seeds, finances, fertilisers, water - euphemistically called "crop failure" - is ghastly proof of a failed agrarian policy.

Isn't this one of the reason is that  the earlier slogan of "Shining India" was rejected by our people. How many more must die, before this death dealing agrarian policy is overturned?