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A conception of farmers connected Thursday staged a walkout from the monthly agriculture grievance redress gathering demanding higher compensation to families of 4 women killed by lightning portion astatine enactment successful Cuddalore territory recently.
The farmers, including N.V. Kannan, Thanajvur territory secretary, Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, affiliated with CPI(M), and Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association Secretary Sundara Vimalanathan, walked retired of the hallway wherever Collector B. Priyanka Pankajam chaired the monthly agriculture grievance redress gathering connected October 30.
They raised slogans successful enactment of their demands earlier leaving the gathering hallway and staging a objection successful the portico successful the Collectorate complex.
Pointing to the magnitude of compensation paid to families of persons who mislaid their lives astatine the Karur stampede and the Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy, the demonstrators said extending ₹5 lakh each to families of 4 women who died successful harness was inadequate. They wanted the compensation magnitude to beryllium accrued to ₹25 lakh.
They exhorted the State authorities to compensate the harvest nonaccomplishment suffered by farmers successful caller rainfall and wanted the kuruvai paddy brought to the nonstop acquisition centres beryllium procured without immoderate conditions.
