Border area farmers stage protest

The Punjab Border Area Kisan Union has appealed to the State and Union Government to accede to the demands of farmers who have their land across the fencing on the Indo-Pak border.

• Raghbir Singh Bhangala, state president and Surjit Singh Bhura, vice-president of the union, informed here today that farmers owning land across the fencing organised a dharna at the District Administrative Complex last week.
• The farmer leaders said that they have been demanding linking of the compensation of Rs 10,000 being giving to them with the Agriculture Price Index.
• The leaders said that compensation for the land acquired forcibly since 1947 on the Zero Line and the 44 feet wide land of the farmers acquired since 1990 for fencing has not been paid to the farmers yet despite repeated representations to the authorities concerned.

Source: Border area farmers stage protest : The Tribune India