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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers' protest to hit Gujarat next month -Maulik Pathak

Farmers' protest to hit Gujarat next month -Maulik Pathak

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published Published on Feb 28, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 28, 2018
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Farmer organizations in Gujarat plan a five-day protest in Gandhinagar next month over allocation of Narmada waters, crop insurance and minimum support price

Ahmedabad:
Farmer organizations in Gujarat plan to hold a five-day protest in Gandhinagar next month to voice concerns over the allocation of Narmada waters and demands on issues such as crop insurance and minimum support price.

“Despite repeated written presentations to Gujarat government, our issues have not been addressed. At a recent meeting attended by 30-35 leaders of various farmers’ organisations, we decided to stage a protest in Gandhinagar from 12 March to 15 March when the assembly session is on,” said Sagar Rabari, general secretary, Khedut Samaj, a farmers’ organisation.

“To avoid difficulties in getting police permission to hold our protest, one representative each from three different farmers’ organizations will sit on a dharna,” Rabari added. The farmers of the state, he said, are also demanding waiver of farm loans.

Farm debt in Gujarat is estimated to be about Rs70,000 crore. Over the last three to four years, farmers in the state have been facing production as well as price losses. “We want the government to waive farm loans of Rs70,000 crore. The BJP government has done this in other states so why not in Gujarat where farm distress is severe,” Rabari said.

Farmer groups are also demanding accounts of the Narmada waters. Rabari said during the election months of October and November, the Sardar Sarovar project authorities had unnecessarily released water from the dam for inaugurations of schemes. “From September to November, the agriculture sector uses monsoon water and does not utilise much of Narmada waters. Hence our repeated query has been that where has the water vanished,” Rabari said over the phone.

Low water availability in the Narmada Dam due to deficient rainfall in its catchment area in Madhya Pradesh is set to create a water crisis in Gujarat this year. The state government has already announced that it would not supply water for irrigation and the entire stock available will be reserved for drinking water in Saurashtra and north Gujarat regions, which are highly dependent on water from the Narmada canals.

A Gujarat government official said the cut in supply was due to reduced inflow of water from upstream sources in Madhya Pradesh. Of the total 28 MAF to be received by the four states, only 14.55 MAF has been allotted. About 5.5 lakh hectare areas in more than 10 districts in the Narmada command area would be stopped as the government has decided to reserve the water available in the dam only for drinking purpose.

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