Rewa farmers submitted complaint to Deputy CM over agriculture officials’ negligence and arbitrary fertiliser sales
Farmers in Gangev block, Rewa, petitioned authorities and the Deputy CM, alleging official apathy, commission-taking and black-marketing in fertiliser distribution.
Farmers of Gangev block in Rewa district submitted complaint letters to the Commissioner, Collector, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Joint Director of Agriculture (Rewa division), the SDM and the Tehsildar, alleging apathy, negligence, commission-taking and black-marketing by agriculture department officials. A few days earlier, the Kisan Sangh had exposed fertiliser being sold at arbitrary rates.
Farmers handed a complaint letter to the Deputy CM over negligence of agriculture officials and arbitrary fertiliser distribution by traders.
Taking note of the matter, Mangawan SDM Sanjay Jain ensured action and, for two days, had fertiliser made available to farmers at the fixed rate in the presence of his staff and police personnel. Complaints of traders selling fertiliser at arbitrary prices were being received not only from Mangawan but from the entire district. Fertiliser not reaching the cooperative societies while being stored in traders’ warehouses placed the role of the responsible officials under suspicion. Speaking to journalists, the affected farmers demanded justice. They also said that at the Deputy CM’s birthday event, farmers would submit memorandums on their problems, including fertiliser and seeds, and that black-marketing had to be curbed.
