Greater Noida: Farmers affected by the land acquisition process for the Mumbai Delhi Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and Delhi Corridor Freight Corporation (DFCC) met with the leader of Rashtriya Lok Dal Jayant Chaudhary at his residence in Delhi on Wednesday.
Under Yuva Umbrella Adhikar Rozgaar Andolan – Combining around 10 Farmers’ clothing – a group of 70 farmers led by the leader of the Sangh Manish BDC Etta and Advocates Indraver Bhati met with their demands and seek support for farmers protest in two separate places in Greater Noida.
The farmers said that they had been rejected by the benefits under the laws of new land acquisition and a group had been in protest in the village of Bodaki for the last 176 days while other groups had protested in Palla village for the past 16 days.
Speaking with Toi, Manish BDC, National Treasurer of Kisan Etta Sangh said that the Head of RLD assured party support to farmers.
“The meeting lasted for more than an hour.
We met Chaudhary and told him that farmers who had been influenced by land acquisition for the DFCC and DMIC projects have been rejected by the benefits of the new land acquisition law.
Our land is lost and our young people Don’t have a job.
We also demanded that eternal land from the farmers affected by untouched, “he said.
The Group also demanded work for farm laborers that depend on agricultural land for their livelihoods.
“There are various types of farm laborers who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
With our land lost, many of them have also lost their livelihoods.
We demand that they get benefits,” he said.
Farmers stopped the gangajal pipeline work of hundreds of farmers who sat protested in Palla Village had demanded that major officials of the Noida Authority (Gnida) meet them and resolve their problems.
“Great noida authority did not listen to us Morcha Sunil Fouji told Ti.
While around 1700 families have been influenced by the land acquisition process in Palla, Chella, Pali, Kathaira villages, farmers demanded that 4000 families from where land had been purchased immediately must also be considered beneficiaries and extend the benefits of the acquisition.
according to land law.
Fouji said that the meeting with DM was followed by Gnida CEOs was likely to take place on Friday after the call would be taken in the future of their protest.