What the marching farmers want
March 12, 2018  14:18
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The All India Kisan Sabha, which is spearheading the farmers' protest march has tweeted a list of demands. These include...


-- The Kisan Long March demands that the burning issues connected to the public distribution system be resolved.


-- It demands increase in pension schemes to poor peasants & agricultural workers.


-- Peasants' lands are being grabbed for fancy, elitist, unnecessary, anti-people projects like super highways & bullet trains.


-- It demands that the temple lands & pasture lands to be vested in the name of the tillers.


-- Change the proposed river linking scheme in Nashik, Thane and Palghar districts. Make water available to these and other drought prone districts. Do not submerge tribal villages.


-- It demands implementation of Swaminathan Commission's recommendations & Forest Rights Act.


-- It demands remunerative prices for agricultural produce.


-- It demands the loan waiver which the Maharashtra CM Dev Fadnavis had promised and took a U-turn later.


Image: Farmers walking to Azad Maidan last night. Pic: Sahil Salvi.
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