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'Adani forcing farmers to vacate land'
-The Times of India

Instead of creating happiness in the lives of farmers in adjacent villages, Adani power corporation has rendered them landless as their agricultural land is forcibly acquired by the district administration for requirement of the thermal power company.

Once affluent, these farmers have now come below poverty line.

Adani Thermal Power Corporation has acquired agricultural land in and around it's thermal power plant near Tiroda (Gondia). The state government gave land to the power plant from Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation premises in Tiroda industrial estate and the remaining land was bought from farmers by the power company. Five villages - Khairbodi, Mehedipur, Kachewani, Gumadhawada and Ramatola are situated near the power plant.

Seven families of these villages own 38 acres of agricultural land, which is the only source of their sustenance. Though some farmers sold their land to Adani power company, these seven families refused to sell their land.

These families were producing paddy, wheat, cereals, grams like crops in kharip and rabbi season and the average income of each family was between Rs 1.5 to 2.5 lakh per annum from agriculture; their sons and daughters were studying in Nagpur and Gondia.

The seven families put a proposal before the company that they be given Rs 40 lakh per hectare of land and employment to one person from each family. But instead of considering their demand or finding an amicable solution to it, the district administration forcibly acquired their land destroyed the standing crop, cut down hundreds of fruit-bearing trees on the land and flattened the land with heavy machineries.

The affected family members lied down before the machinery, but they were removed, police complaint was lodged in Tiroda police station, but the police did not take any action against company or government officials. Now those families have become landless and in the near future they will become homeless too.

Sanjay Bagade (40), a resident of village Kachewani, said, "Adani power company is taking revenge. At their behest, the district administration forcibly acquired our land, keeping us in dark. When they were flattening our land by heavy machinery, I along with the women folk of our family lay down before the machiney to register protest, but they were so ruthless that they forcibly drove us out. They cut fruit bearing trees, destroyed irrigation network. Neither the police nor the district administration is paying heed to our complaints. We engaged one pleader from Nagpur to advocate our case against the government and the power company in the court of law, but the power company pressurized him and he withdrew from the case."

Several times we met the collector, sub-divisional officer and other concerned officials, but everyone expressed their inability to take up the matter. As our land is forcibly acquired, there is nothing left for our sustenance, we have become landless, our houses are left in village, in the coming season our village will be surrounded by water, our houses will come under water and we will meet watery grave. The power company has made our condition so pathetic that we won't have to commit suicide, that care is taken by power company."

Vishnu Chaudhari and his nephew Dharmadas Chabilal Chaudhari said that the elder member of their family Chabilal has become a heart patient due to forcible acquisition of their agricultural land. The approach road to their village is also destroyed by power company, now living in house has become difficult for them, in the coming days they will demolish their houses and they will become homeless and landless.

There was hope from local BJP MLA Dr Khushal Bopche, who assured the villagers that he would ask the power company to buy their land for Rs 25 lakh per acre.

"He is neither visiting our village nor listening to our woes. Whatever situation comes, we are confirm we won't sell our land, we won't move from our houses and we will fight for our legal rights, we will prefer death than surrendering before the company. Politicians and government officials are hand in glove to devastate our lives, but we brave farmers won't succumb to their pressure," said Chaudharis.