Farmers from Noida villages on Wednesday staged a protest outside Parliament House in Delhi demanding hiked land compensation and better rehabilitation facilities for their families against the land acquired for the development in the city in over the past 40 years.
Earlier on Wednesday, they announced that they will enter the national capital on tractors, buses and other vehicles. The protesters planned to gather at Mahamaya flyover, from where the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway begins, around noon Thursday and march towards Delhi.
As they will use the Delhi-Noida link road, the Gautam Budh Nagar police have taken adequate measures to police the stretch during the agitation march, said senior police officers.
“We have done arrangements for the protest march that will begin from Noida’s Mahamaya flyover and go to Parliament House in Delhi. The Uttar Pradesh government is not addressing our demand for 10% of total land acquired for residential purposes, 64.7% hiked land compensation, permission for commercial activities on residential plots and other benefits,” said Sukhbir Yadav, leader, who is leading the protest under the banner of Bharatriya Kisan Ekta Sangh.
On September 20, 2023,the farmers had ended their protest after the Noida authority assured them that their demands will be acted on over the next few months. But they resumed their protest on December 18 after they realised that the state government and the Noida authority were not addressing their demands.
The farmers from Noida, Greater Noida and other areas will join hands to intensify their protest against the Noida authority that acquires the land from farmers, develop it and then sell the same to investors or developers for setting up industries and realty projects. Farmers said they have not received adequate compensation and rehabilitation facilities for the acquired land.
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