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Members of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) staged a objection extracurricular the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau successful Kalaburagi precocious demanding the contiguous merchandise of pending harvest security compensation to farmers successful the district.
Leading the protest, KPRS territory president Sharanabasappa Mamshetty said that astir 2.8 lakh farmers successful Kalaburagi territory are yet to person harvest security claims amounting to astir ₹300 crore.
He said that farmers person suffered extended harvest losses owed to excessive rainfall during the erstwhile cultivation play and person been further deed by a crisp autumn successful reddish gram prices owing to the lack of an effectual enactment terms mechanism.
Mr. Mamshetty said that farmers are facing terrible fiscal hardship arsenic preparations for the kharif play gathers pace.
Many farmers, helium said, are being forced to get wealth and basal successful agelong queues astatine APMC Yards, TAPCMS and VSSN offices to procure seeds and fertilisers.
“The contiguous merchandise of the pending harvest security compensation volition supply the much-needed fiscal enactment to farmers and assistance them instrumentality up sowing activities without further delay,” helium said.
Decision opposed
The organisation besides voiced beardown absorption to the projected privatisation of the powerfulness organisation assemblage and demanded that the State authorities safeguard nationalist ownership of energy utilities.
In a memorandum, the KPRS urged the State authorities to halt powerfulness assemblage privatisation, retreat energy tariff hikes and support preservation benefits successful recruitments to powerfulness utilities.
It expressed interest implicit proposals to assistance powerfulness organisation licence to backstage companies, including Tata Power, saying that specified moves volition adversely impact employment opportunities for section younker and summation the load connected agrarian consumers.
The farmers assemblage called upon Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission to cull applications from backstage powerfulness distributors, guarantee uninterrupted energy proviso to agrarian areas and support the interests of farmers babelike connected irrigation pumpsets.
Mr. Mamshetty, on with farmers leaders Dilip Nagure and Devu Biradar, submitted a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister done the Deputy Commissioner, the Joint Director of Agriculture and the Managing Director of GESCOM, Kalaburagi.
