After Shinde’s assurance, farmers’ protest march halts near Mumbai

The ‘Lengthy March’ of farmers that has commenced from Nasik district of Maharashtra will wait close to Vasind city on the outskirts of Mumbai, because the second assembly between farmer leaders and the state authorities was fruitful. Farmer leaders had been invited by chief minister Eknath Shinde to carry talks on Thursday relating to their varied calls for. Together with the CM, deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, agriculture minister Abdul Sattar, and officers of involved departments had been additionally current.

In accordance with farmer leaders, the state authorities has agreed to all their calls for, and so till it points official orders, the Lengthy 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’ve additionally demanded a price of Rs 2,000 per quintal for onions, and an instantaneous subsidy of Rs 600 per quintal in addition to modifications within the onion export coverage.

Farmer chief and former MLA Jiva Gavit informed the media, “The federal government has agreed to our calls for. We’ve given them an ultimatum that the orders must be issued inside 4 days and efficient implementation ought to occur on the taluka degree. Until then, our Lengthy March will keep on the outskirts of Mumbai in Vasind. We are going to withdraw our march and return to our villages solely after the implementation begins in a time-bound method. Or else we are going to proceed with our Lengthy March and can enter Mumbai.”

Within the three-hour assembly, the state authorities did focus on all of the calls for of the farmers intimately. The problem of farmland possession of tribal farmers, 12 hours of electrical energy for farmers, and encroachments on tribal farming had been additionally talked about at size. CM Shinde assured the delegation of farmer leaders that this authorities is with them. “As we speak we had a really fruitful and optimistic dialogue with the protesting farmers’ delegation. We’re with the farmers of the state. Relating to this subject, I’ll make an announcement on the ground of the Home. I’ve additionally requested them to withdraw their march and protest,” he stated.

That is the third such Lengthy March farmers have taken out previously 7 years over their varied calls for. About 10,000 farmers from totally different areas of Maharashtra have taken half on this protest march.

Their different main calls for embody a whole mortgage waiver to the peasantry, waiving of pending electrical energy payments and 12-hour day by day provide of energy, compensation by the federal government and by insurance coverage firms for the harm sustained by farmers as a result of unseasonal rains and different pure calamities, enhance within the PM Housing Scheme subsidy from Rs 1.40 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, a recent survey and inclusion of candidates’ names within the ‘D’ listing, compensation in circumstances of mandatory land acquisition as per the Kerala components, filling of all vacancies in authorities posts, regularisation of all contract staff and scheme staff as authorities staff, and changing “bogus adivasis” on authorities posts with actual ones.

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