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| Border residents suffer losses due fencing | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 28
Farmers living in the border areas of R.S.Pura, Akhnoor, Samba, Kupwara and Uri have suffered heavy losses after they were not able tocultivate their fields lying across the barbed wirefence. Sohan Lal and Sham Lal of village Pallanwala saidthat"we have suffered 30 to 65 per cent loss owing tofall in our produce of what,rice and pulses."Sohan Lalsaid that "prior to the fencing I used to produce 48quintals of wheat,50 quintals of rice and 22 quintalsof pulses per year.I am able to produce one third ofit because my 48-kanal land lies across the fence andwe do not get permisson for carrying out farmingpractices." Sukhbir Singh of Bega and Balwinder Singh villageAbdullian in R.S.Pora said that "we have sufferedlosses because of the fencing and on account of atwo-year gap in farming practices because of miningand then demining programme." Many among the
farmers have complained that they havenot received any compensation so far.The Government ofIndia has sanctioned a Rs.78-crore package for forrehabilitation of 6000 border families. And thespeaker of the Assembly has taken up the issue ofcompensation with the Army authorities.He said thatcompensation amount will be released in favour of theaffected families shortly.Besides this plots forbuilding houses for those who have not been able toreturn to their ancestral villages would also be givento them. What seems to have dampened the morale of somefarmers is that they have been forced to eke out theirliving by working as labourers for construction ofroads."I own 64 kanals of land where I would producewheat maize and pulses but after permission was deniedto me and to my neighbours for crop cultivation in myfields lying across the fence I had no otheralternative but to become a camper at
Naiwalla,"saidDarshan Kumar who earn between Rs.100 and Rs.,120 dayas a labourer. |
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