IMPHAL: Two major issues that Manipur is facing insurgency and the plight of people affected by the Loktak hydroelectric project have been incorporated in the All India Kisan Sabha's charter of demands which will be raised by the CPI MPs in the ensuing parliament session.
Altogether 25 demands were adopted during the 28th national conference of the sabha, CPI's frontal organization, held in December last year at Aurangabad in Maharastra.
Leaders of the Manipur Loumi Lup (MLL), an affiliating constituent unit of the sabha, who attended the conference, said the demands were adopted in view of various problems faced by the poor farmers of the country.
"Addressing insurgency problem, which hampers all development work in the state, through political dialogue is the 24th demand adopted in the conference," said Th Tomba, president of MLL.
The other demand concering the state is to compensate the Loktak project-affected people for the loss of their land, crops and help them settle under the national rehabilitation and re-settlement policy 2007.
He said thousands of people living around Loktak, the biggest fresh water lake in eastern India, have been affected by the hydro-electric project.
According to another provision adopted in the conference, the Centre, with the cooperation of state governments, should make a pension provision of Rs 2,000 a month for each man and woman of a family who have attained the age of 60 for the welfare of farmers and agriculture labors. There should also be a provision for compulsory healthcare and education for their families.
He said the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 should be scrapped and a pro-farmer act be adopted to ensure maximum safeguard of agricultural land.
If land acquisition is done for public utility, sufficient compensation, rehabilitation and employment should be arranged for all farmers, agriculture labourers and other dependents of that land, Thomba added.
The conference also sought that identification of the BPL families among the rural and urban poor be done afresh and each family be provided with 35 kg food grain a month at the rate of Rs 2 a kg, he said.
The Central and state governments should jointly prepare a comprehensive housing plan at the national level for small and marginal farmers.
Initiative should be taken to provide special financial and technical assistance to farmers and others engaged in gardening in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and other hill states, including the northeast states.
Source: TimesOF India, Guwahati
Altogether 25 demands were adopted during the 28th national conference of the sabha, CPI's frontal organization, held in December last year at Aurangabad in Maharastra.
Leaders of the Manipur Loumi Lup (MLL), an affiliating constituent unit of the sabha, who attended the conference, said the demands were adopted in view of various problems faced by the poor farmers of the country.
"Addressing insurgency problem, which hampers all development work in the state, through political dialogue is the 24th demand adopted in the conference," said Th Tomba, president of MLL.
The other demand concering the state is to compensate the Loktak project-affected people for the loss of their land, crops and help them settle under the national rehabilitation and re-settlement policy 2007.
He said thousands of people living around Loktak, the biggest fresh water lake in eastern India, have been affected by the hydro-electric project.
According to another provision adopted in the conference, the Centre, with the cooperation of state governments, should make a pension provision of Rs 2,000 a month for each man and woman of a family who have attained the age of 60 for the welfare of farmers and agriculture labors. There should also be a provision for compulsory healthcare and education for their families.
He said the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 should be scrapped and a pro-farmer act be adopted to ensure maximum safeguard of agricultural land.
If land acquisition is done for public utility, sufficient compensation, rehabilitation and employment should be arranged for all farmers, agriculture labourers and other dependents of that land, Thomba added.
The conference also sought that identification of the BPL families among the rural and urban poor be done afresh and each family be provided with 35 kg food grain a month at the rate of Rs 2 a kg, he said.
The Central and state governments should jointly prepare a comprehensive housing plan at the national level for small and marginal farmers.
Initiative should be taken to provide special financial and technical assistance to farmers and others engaged in gardening in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and other hill states, including the northeast states.
Source: TimesOF India, Guwahati
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