Reported By: Mayuresh Ganapatye
Edited By: Pathikrit Sen Gupta
Last Updated: March 17, 2023, 01:32 IST
The protesting farmers had put ahead 17 calls for for the state authorities to approve. Pic/PTI
According to farmer leaders, the state authorities has agreed to all their calls for throughout talks on Thursday, and so till it points official orders, the Long March will wait on the outskirts of Mumbai until March 20
The ‘Long March’ of farmers that has commenced from Nasik district of Maharashtra will wait near Vasind city on the outskirts of Mumbai, because the second assembly between farmer leaders and the state authorities was fruitful. Farmer leaders have been invited by chief minister Eknath Shinde to carry talks on Thursday concerning their numerous calls for. Along with the CM, deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, agriculture minister Abdul Sattar, and officers of involved departments have been additionally current.
According to farmer leaders, the state authorities has agreed to all their calls for, and so till it points official orders, the Long March will wait on the outskirts of Mumbai until March 20.
The protesting farmers had put ahead 17 calls for for the state authorities to approve, together with remunerative costs for onion, cotton, soybean, tur, inexperienced gram, and milk. They have additionally demanded a charge of Rs 2,000 per quintal for onions, and a right away subsidy of Rs 600 per quintal in addition to modifications within the onion export coverage.
Farmer chief and former MLA Jiva Gavit advised the media, “The authorities has agreed to our calls for. We have given them an ultimatum that the orders ought to be issued inside 4 days and efficient implementation ought to occur on the taluka degree. Till then, our Long March will keep on the outskirts of Mumbai in Vasind. We will withdraw our march and return to our villages solely after the implementation begins in a time-bound method. Or else we’ll proceed with our Long March and can enter Mumbai.”
In the three-hour meeting, the state government did discuss all the demands of the farmers in detail. The issue of farmland ownership of tribal farmers, 12 hours of electricity for farmers, and encroachments on tribal farming were also talked about at length. CM Shinde assured the delegation of farmer leaders that this government is with them. “Today we had a very fruitful and positive discussion with the protesting farmers’ delegation. We are with the farmers of the state. Regarding this issue, I will make a statement on the floor of the House. I have also requested them to withdraw their march and protest,” he mentioned.
This is the third such Long March farmers have taken out prior to now 7 years over their numerous calls for. About 10,000 farmers from totally different areas of Maharashtra have taken half on this protest march.
Their different main calls for embrace an entire mortgage waiver to the peasantry, waiving of pending electrical energy payments and 12-hour each day provide of energy, compensation by the federal government and by insurance coverage corporations for the harm sustained by farmers attributable to unseasonal rains and different pure calamities, enhance within the PM Housing Scheme subsidy from Rs 1.40 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, a contemporary survey and inclusion of candidates’ names within the ‘D’ checklist, compensation in instances of essential land acquisition as per the Kerala method, filling of all vacancies in authorities posts, regularisation of all contract employees and scheme employees as authorities staff, and changing “bogus adivasis” on government posts with real ones.
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