The Cabinet sub-committee of the Chhattisgarh government has accepted six of the eight demands of farmers of the capital project area and has appealed to them to end their ongoing protest.
Agriculture Minister Ravindra Choubey and Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar told reporters that the sub-committee, after deliberating on the demands, had agreed on six of the. Legal advice has been sought on the rest of the two demands.
Three rounds of talks with the farmers have taken place.
“Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is sensitive towards the demands of farmers," one of the Ministers said.
The panel agreed to issue land title for the habitat area, remove audit objections, induct family members of affected in contractual appointments in Nava Raipur Development Authority and allot commercial shops and gumtis to the affected farmers through lottery, the Ministers said.
The concerned departments have also been told to resolve the problems of the farmers after listening to their plight sympathetically.
"We have fulfilled major demands of farmers and the ‘Kisan Kalyan Samiti’ must end their agitation immediately," they said.