Maharashtra farmers protest against airport plan , farmers burned down police van
Thursday, June 22, 2017 IST
Maharashtra farmers protest against airport plan , farmers burned down police van
Many angry farmers challenging a proposed worldwide air terminal on the edges of Mumbai held up activity, conflicted with police and torched an official vehicle at an early stage Thursday.
Neighborhood disdain had been working against arrangements to transform a surrendered World War II airbase into a worldwide air terminal at Nevali, around 45 km upper east of Mumbai. Be that as it may, Thursday's challenges took a startling vicious turn with farmers whose land had been gained for the venture assaulting police.
Tv pictures demonstrated stick-employing dissidents hindering a bustling nearby street with consuming tires and setting a police van on fire. They conflicted with police when they attempted to scatter the group.
"Some of our policemen endured wounds while attempting to control the circumstance," said an officer who did not wish to be named. A right hand police official was among the harmed.
Farmland securing for modern and framework ventures has for some time been a lightning bar for dissents in India with farmers regularly blaming experts for persuasively taking without end land or gaining it inexpensively.
This year, outrage among farmers has likewise developed over a few states, including Maharashtra, over diminishing yield pay due to a supply overabundance and a money crunch activated by the administration's demonetisation move last November. A few states have declared budgetary bailouts to mollify cultivate trouble.
The British-period airstrip at Nevali is currently outdated. The administration needs to create it as the state's third global air terminal and had started the way toward procuring land for it. Numerous local people whose land was taken now need it back.
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