KKKS to meet Chidambaram next month
MUKESH SHARMA
Kalimpong, November 20:
5 representatives of
Kalimpong Krishak Kalyan Sangh (KKKS) will be meeting the Finance Minister, P
Chidambaram next month. The above was informed by the KKKS General Secretary,
Vishnu Chettri today. During the time of agitation from 2007-11 the farmers had
taken loans under a scheme of the Centre. The Sangathan last year had appealed
for its relaxation to the then Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, but nothing
was done as such. Thus, the banks sent a notice to the farmers regarding the
return of the loans, recently. The KKKS say that the farmers could not properly
utilize the loan during the time of insurgency.
In other hand there are
no banks in 31 Gram Panchayats of the hills, because of which the farmers are
facing several issues in getting loans under the MGNREGA scheme.
During the forthcoming
meet, the KKKS will be highlighting all these issues to the Finance Minister.
They will also be requesting that the funds for the farmers issued by the Centre
should reach directly and properly to the farmers. Crop insurance during the
times of calamities will also be put forward.
Further, the KKKS will
also be putting forward the issues of the farmers to the Agriculture Minister
of the Centre on January 2013, it has been informed. Apart from these they will
also be demanding the Centre for the Panchayat election in the hills. other
pending issues such as the relaxation in the electricity and telephone bills,
issues related to tea gardens and cinchona, khasmal, small scale farmers, etc.
will also be highlighted.
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