Chhattisgarh Forest and Climate Change Minister Mohammad Akbar on Monday assured the Kisan Morcha Samiti (KMS) to talk to Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and the Nava Raipur Atal Nagar Vikas Pradhikaran (NRANVP) regarding their demands and said these would be resolved.
The farmers of NRANVP Area under the banner of KMS have been staging sit-in-demonstration for more than 13 days before the NRANVP office premises at Atal Nagar, Nava Raipur, raising several unfulfilled demands.
A delegation of KMS approached the Minister to ask for ‘Chherchera’ on the occasion of the festival of Chherchera and Shakambhari Jayanti. the Minister donated paddy to the visiting farmers of Nava Raipur.
On the occasion, office bearers and members of KMC handed over a memorandum to the Minister regarding the demands of rehabilitation and resettlement in Nava Raipur.