The wall stopped the way to the fields: the fast road took away the brightness of the farmers.
The distance between Delhi-Mumbai will be reduced by the expressway. Business will increase. One more thing was being said that the farmers will get tremendous benefit from this, but the farmers along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway have faced the problem of going to their fields. Farmers say that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has closed the way to our fields in order to shorten the Delhi-Mumbai route. NHAI has pulled up the wall. Due to this farmers are fighting among themselves.
NHAI, which assured to build service road, is now counting compulsions? The farmers of MP say that they have got half the compensation compared to the farmers of Rajasthan. The government has taken our land and banned our tractors on the expressway. At least they could have given permission to drive a tractor. This pain is of more than 6500 farmers of Mandsaur, Ratlam and Jhabua. Their fields have gone to this expressway. Dainik Bhaskar team reached among the farmers to know about these problems.
Three problems arise if three promises are not fulfilled
1. Compensation equal to Rajasthan was not given, new land is not available at this price.
2. Instead of building a service road, a wall was erected, the roads were closed.
3. Tractors have been banned, how can farmers reach their fields.
Farmers say that at the time of allocation of compensation, a notice was given in the newspaper that the farmers from whom the land will be taken will be given four times more compensation than the DLC (District Level Committee) rate. When the farmers agreed to give land, it was reduced to double. DLC rate is 2.62 lakh per bigha.
Was assured that 15 feet will be given on both sides Farmers said that at the beginning of the construction of the expressway, all the farmers were assured by NHAI that after acquiring 15-15 feet more land on both sides of the expressway, they would give way for their fields. Now that the work has been completed, a wall has been erected on the open land on both sides of the expressway. The government did not pay attention to how the farmers would reach their fields? Our farm is divided into two parts. One part is left here, the other part is on the other side of the expressway.
Now the farmers are facing trouble to go to their fields. Farmers are fighting among themselves. More differences will arise in the days to come. There is a dispute when they are going from someone’s farm. If there is no way then how can a farmer let someone else go from his field.
During the construction of the expressway near the Javra-Ujjain two-lane bypass, the farmers of the surrounding areas have already demonstrated many times. Bhagat Ram Patidar, Satya Narayan Patidar, Kishan Das and Radheshyam Sharma, farmers living in nearby villages, say that we had staged a sit-in then. Due to this, even the work of the expressway had come to a standstill. The officers who reached the spot were told that our fields have been divided into two parts. There is no way left to go from the village to the farm. If there is no road, how will we reach the farm. Should you leave your land vacant? We farmers had demanded to make an alternate route for us. Then the project director of the MP section, Ravi Gupta, assured that an alternative route would be made soon to go to the fields. Now that the expressway is ready, the department has forgotten what it promised.
