Vijayapura: Fed up with the lengthen within the acquire of tur dal through a procurement centre, a few farmers from Devar Hipparagi village on Thursday staged a protest via throwing the dal on a street within the city.
Gururaj Gaded, who's a farmer and an ayurvedic physician, introduced 25 quintals of tur dal in a tractor on Thursday morning, and threw the produce directly to the street close to Dr Ambedkar Circle.
He advised TOI, “The primary explanation why I protested used to be though the federal government opened tur dal procurement centres in lots of places, corruption is rampant here. For every quintal of tur dal procured, the staff demands Rs 250.”
Gaded said his other call for used to be to increase the acquisition quantity from every farmer. They had grown much more quantity of dal this yr as the federal government had provided good irrigation facilities, but the meagre procurement quantity had left them unhappy.
“I introduced this to the awareness of the district management, but when the officers failed to turn any concern, I took this step because the ultimate resort, and threw the dal on the street,” Gaded said.
Meanwhile, APMC secretary and nodal officer of tur dal procurement centres Mahadevappa Chabanur rushed to the spot and satisfied the farmer in regards to the government’s decision on procurement.
Chabanur clarified that the federal government won't building up the acquisition quantity at any value. “If there are any proceedings of corruption, we will type it out. As per the grievance, the procurement centre at Golageri village is cancelled, and notices were issued for 3 other centres,” he said.
The authentic said, “In the 92 tur dal procurement centres within the district, 60,051 registered farmers benefited, of the whole 78,607 farmers.”
The further deputy commissioner arrived on the spot at 1.30pm and requested Gaded to withdraw the protest and advised him the problem can be solved.
Gaded withdraw his four-hour protest. Akhand Karnataka Raitha Sangh state vice-president Aravind Kulkarni and a number of other other farmers had joined the protest in give a boost to of Gaded.
Gururaj Gaded, who's a farmer and an ayurvedic physician, introduced 25 quintals of tur dal in a tractor on Thursday morning, and threw the produce directly to the street close to Dr Ambedkar Circle.
He advised TOI, “The primary explanation why I protested used to be though the federal government opened tur dal procurement centres in lots of places, corruption is rampant here. For every quintal of tur dal procured, the staff demands Rs 250.”
Gaded said his other call for used to be to increase the acquisition quantity from every farmer. They had grown much more quantity of dal this yr as the federal government had provided good irrigation facilities, but the meagre procurement quantity had left them unhappy.
“I introduced this to the awareness of the district management, but when the officers failed to turn any concern, I took this step because the ultimate resort, and threw the dal on the street,” Gaded said.
Meanwhile, APMC secretary and nodal officer of tur dal procurement centres Mahadevappa Chabanur rushed to the spot and satisfied the farmer in regards to the government’s decision on procurement.
Chabanur clarified that the federal government won't building up the acquisition quantity at any value. “If there are any proceedings of corruption, we will type it out. As per the grievance, the procurement centre at Golageri village is cancelled, and notices were issued for 3 other centres,” he said.
The authentic said, “In the 92 tur dal procurement centres within the district, 60,051 registered farmers benefited, of the whole 78,607 farmers.”
The further deputy commissioner arrived on the spot at 1.30pm and requested Gaded to withdraw the protest and advised him the problem can be solved.
Gaded withdraw his four-hour protest. Akhand Karnataka Raitha Sangh state vice-president Aravind Kulkarni and a number of other other farmers had joined the protest in give a boost to of Gaded.
Farmer protests corruption, dumps tur dal on road in Vijayapura
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