With Raman Singh taking oath of secrecy for the post of Chief Minister on Thursday, demands for completing the promises made in the political manifesto have started to grow. The farmers of Durg district are preparing to raise demands for paying of Rs 2,100 for the paddy reaching in procurement centres along with bonus of Rs 300.
Patron of Chhattisgarh Pragatisheel Kisan Sanghatan (CPKS) Rajkumar Gupta and president IK Verma informed that on December 16 a delegation of farmers would meet Collector Durg for handing him memorandum for providing of relief to soybean producers under Rashtriya Fasal Beema Yojna. “During this time the leaders and officer bearers of CPKS would be present. After discussion with the leaders an outline for building pressure over state government for swift providing of increase support price and bonus to farmers would be discussed,” they said.
They further informed that we would demand the Government to give support price on paddy that have been taken in the procurement from day one of this season. CPKS could also stage demonstrations in the paddy procurement centres situated in all districts of State, they said. During the meeting issue related to electronic weighing machine, non-stop procurement of paddy and transportation of paddy would be considered.