farmers' protest at DND flyway closes

Noida (UP), Feb 2 Hundreds of farmers from Uttar Pradesh, who were protesting near
the DND flyway for enhanced compensation in lieu of their land acquired before 2013, finished their sit-in on Saturday after specialists guaranteed them recorded as a hard copy their demand would be looked into.

The Delhi-Noida-Direct flyway, a crucial route connecting UP and Delhi, was closed briefly on Friday evening as farmers from western UP locale challenged there, tossing traffic movement out of gear.

The farmers, numbering around 500 from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Aligarh and Meerut, had stayed put until Saturday evening.

Many of them were ladies from towns with their heads secured. The ladies had their options raised and limited with a bit of material in a representative signal communicating powerlessness.

"The challenge got over around 2.30pm and farmers have emptied the spot," Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Vaibhav Krishna told.

"They consented to leave after they got an assurance in writing from the district magistrate. They have been guaranteed of a gathering in seven days with local authorities like Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) over their complaints," he said.

The situation at DND is presently normal and there is no deterrent to traffic development.

Prior Saturday, the farmers and their leader, Manveer Teotia, had declined conversing with City Magistrate Shailendra Mishra and Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Anil Kumar Jha.

Teotia said farmers in Tappal, Mathura and Aligarh have been dissenting for a long time over "irregularities" in land acquisition between 2008 and 2012 but the state government has "not listened" to their requests.

"We are here to request that we be given compensation in accordance with the law ashore securing that was passed in Parliament in 2013. Our properties were acquired before that and we have been forgotten from the advantages as doled out under the new law," Kaale Singh from Bhatta Parsaul town of Gautam Buddh Nagar told.

He said the farmers need local authorities and administrations to take up the issue with UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, however nothing productive has happened up until this point, consequently the challenge.

"Yesterday we tried to go to Delhi but were ceased halfway, so we chose to remain put close to the DND. We won't move except if we get a satisfactory response from top officials," he said.

Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate B N Singh met the farmers Saturday morning and guaranteed them he would take up the issue with the state government. Be that as it may, Kaale Singh said the "protestors remained dissatisfied with the assurance".

Two policemen and two farmers were slaughtered in conflicts in May 2011 after challenges over procurement of land in Greater Noida's Bhatta Parsaul, the Jat-overwhelmed town which had turned into the epicenter of protests of land acquisitions in the nation.

Two years since that upheaval, the nation had got the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (also Land Acquisition Act, 2013).

The new law was gone for giving reasonable remuneration to those whose arrive is removed, conveys straightforwardness to the procedure of obtaining of land to set up factories or buildings, infrastructure projects and assures rehabilitation of those affected.