Farmer leaders ready to resume talks with Govt on Dec 29

As the ongoing farmers agitation entered its 31st day on Saturday a group of 40farmer union leaders on Saturday announced that the governmentfarmer dialogue will resume with the sixth round of talks on Tuesday The group reiterated that the repeal of the three contentious farm Acts and the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 was their first and foremost demand followed by all other issuesThe meeting will be held at 11 am at Vigyan Bhavan in Central Delhi the same venue where previous rounds of talks were held Past five round of talks have remained inconclusive with the farmers adamant on the repeal of the three farm laws and the government saying it can amend the laws but withdrawal isnt possibleThe Union Agriculture Ministry in an official letter also confirmed the resumption of talks mentioning a fourpoint agenda of the meeting that includes modalities to be adopted for the repeal of the three Central farm acts mechanisms to be adopted to make remunerative MSP Minimum Support Price recommended by the National Farmers Commission into a legally guaranteed entitlement for all farmers and all agricultural commodities amendments to be made and notified in the Commission for the Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance 2020 to exclude farmers from the penal provisions of the Ordinance and changes to be made in the draft Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 to protect the interests of farmersAll the farmers associations under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee AIKSCC reiterated that they are and have always been open to a sincere dialogueAfter a meeting at Singhu border a major protest venue at the DelhiChandigarh border the AIKSCC reiterated that the first and foremost demand of the farmers of India is to repeal of three farm Acts and the Electricity Bill 2020 every other demand only follows thisFarmers have been agitating for years under AIKSCC for MSP at C25037 for all crops and all farmers and waiver of debts of all farmers and landless agriculture workers adivasis Comprehensive Cost C2 is the actual cost of production as it takes into account for rent and interest foregone on the land and machinery owned by farmersBut instead of solving these problems the Modi government came up with the three ordinances and the EB 2020 which erodes all current benefits and securities and creates legal structure for control by corporates over farming processes input sales machinery crop purchase storage transport processing and sale of food This will indebt the farmers further suicides will rise crops will become cheap while food will become costly and hoarding and black marketing will rise the AIKSCC said in a statementThe Working Group of AIKSCC clarifies that all farmer welfare schemes are riddled with corruption and high nonperformanceIn the ODF for example AIKSCC said 90 per cent of toilets made under the scheme are incomplete and in disuse and 95 per cent of all bank accounts created under Jan Dhan remain zero balance for most of the yearThe group alleged that PMKISAN is a pittance of Rs 1632 per day worth 800 gms of wheat flour and that PMFBY is a surreptitious scheme for transfer of farmers contribution and government farmer funds to district wise allocated insurance companies having provided with captive premium markets to earn They earned Rs 2500 crores in 201718 and up to Rs 10000 laterKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever