Farmers Agitation

Why Punjab Farmers are Protesting Against Bhagwant Mann Government  10 Sep 2022  https://www.newsclick.in/Punjab-Farmers-Protesting-Against-Bhagwant-Mann-Government Among their demands from the state government are providing proper treatment facilities to save their cattle from the lumpy skin disease scrouge and adequate arrangements to dispose of the animals dying of the disease. The veterinary treatment system is in bad shape all over the state. The second demand is regarding the rate of sugarcane and arrears payable to farmers. Though the Punjab government has released the pending sums of cooperative sugarcane mills to farmers in two instalments as promised, farmers still await the interest on arrears and the arrears of private mills. .., farmer leader Jagmohan Singh said, “The farmers have not yet received the compensation for crop failures. The previous state government had promised Rs. 5 lakh and jobs to the families of farmers who were martyred in the farmers’ agitation. The AAP government had said it would fulfil this assurance. But during the Charanjit Singh Channi government’s term, this Rs. 5 lakh had almost cleared all hurdles. The promise of jobs is yet to be fulfilled by the Bhagwant Mann government.”