Dharini had been under severe mental stress. Unable to cope with the situation, he collapsed in the mandi itself. Though he was rushed to nearby Baunsuni government hospital, the doctors there declared him received dead.
Thousands of farmers across several districts of Odisha took to streets on Thursday and threw paddy on the roads as a mark of protest against katni chhatni in paddy procurement.
Massive protests were seen by aggrieved farmers in Khordha, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Keonjhar districts.
A group of farmers defied security guards and stormed towards the CM’s residence and tried to stage a demonstration, but were stopped by security personnel.
Concerned over inordinate delay by the Odisha government to open paddy procurement centres across the state, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced to launch Mandi Chala Abhiyan.
he traders from the other side of the State are procuring the paddy from them, even paying higher than the price they would have fetched from the government.
About 105.14 lakh farmers have been benefited with an MSP value of Rs 1,45,358.13 crore, government data showed.
Participating in the discussion, Congress Legislature Party leader Narasingha Mishra sought to know why CCTVS have not been installed in the mandis.
Reality checks show the zero hour BJD uprisings is to shift the blame on the Centre over the flip-flops in PMAY and rice procurement
At present while the token period is drawing to the close, the harvested paddy crops are still lying in the farmlands.
As per the rule, millers can not procure paddy directly from farmers. They, instead, procure it from the mandis or paddy procurement centres.
Farmers, on the other hand, are staying out near the mandi in the extreme cold weather both day and night to guard their crops.
In a jaw-dropping revelation, the satellite survey conducted by the Odisha Space Application Centre (OSAC) has unearthed large-scale irregularities and identified over 26,000 illegal lands in seven districts in the State registered for paddy procurement.
The BJP Lok Sabha Members from Odisha met the Union Minister of Consumers Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal on Wednesday to draw his attention on the alleged scuttling of paddy procurement by the government of Odisha.
After devastation wreaked by the Cyclonic storm Jawad, mandi mismanagement in many districts of Odisha has provided ample opportunity for dalals to rob the farmers of their money hard-earned from harvested crops.
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