Farmers from Maharashtra's Palghar district are among thousands who have joined the 'Kisan March' in Delhi, aiming to voice their opposition to the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.
Around 150 people, including women, under the banner of All India Kisan Sabha from Palghar, which has a population of around 30 lakhs, have pitched tents at the Ramlila Ground in New Delhi, for the Kisan March.
Prime minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe had, on September 14, 2017, launched the Rs 1.10 lakh crore Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Network. The train, expected to cover the distance of over 500 kms between the two cities in less than three hours, is scheduled to run by August 15, 2022, to mark India’s 75th year of independence.
Kakde Thapar, 45, from the same taluka, said the bullet train is planned to go past her Komgaon village and if that happens, her two acre land would also be gone. Thapar, who has eight children, said her family of 10 lives off the rice and the vegetables that her husband grows in their land. The family consumes most of it and the remaining is sold in the village, she said. “What will I do with the money? Where would I go with it? If we are left with our land, we may do something with it. The money would perish soon,” she said.
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