He urged the chief minister to provide a subsidy of Rs 20 per litre on diesel to farmers and reduce the power prices with immediate effect. In his letter, Gandhi shared the concerns of the farmers over the high charges of electricity and diesel price. The PM KISAN scheme is an initiative by the Centre through which all farmers will get up to Rs 6,000 per year as minimum income support. The BJP MP also pitched for the doubling of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme to Rs 12,000 per annum for farmers with the state government contributing Rs 6,000 from its own funds. BE THE CHANGE: A GRANDFATHER GANDHI STORY by Arun Gandhi & Bethany Hegedus, illustrated by Evan Turk is a picture book that focuses on one of the eleven vows of ashram living, the one that Arun found the most challenging: not to waste. In the year 1930-31 the number of sugar mills increased from 30 to 135 and in the year 1935-36 production was increased from 1.20 lakh tonnes to 9.34 lakh tonnes under the dynamic leadership. We need to start re-engaging with them in a respectful manner: understand their pain, their point of view and work with them in reaching common ground,” the Pilibhit MP had tweeted as farmer protest against the contentious laws resumed with new vigour in many parts of Uttar Pradesh. In the year 1930 there was an advent of modern sugar processing industry in India which was started with grant of tariff protection to the sugar industry. Gandhi, in his tweet last week, had called for re-engaging with protesting farmers: “Lakhs of farmers have gathered in protest today, in Muzaffarnagar.
The UP government has claimed that Rs 1,42,650 crore was given to the farmers in the last four years. Very few people, however, know how precious this stone, given by Miraben, was to Gandhiji. Tagging the letter, the three-term MP said: “I hope issues of the sons of the soil will be heard,” he tweeted in Hindi.Īt a time when the BJP government in UP claimed that it had cleared more than 80 per cent of dues to about 4.5 million sugar cane farmers of the state, Varun Gandhi pointed out that some dues were still unpaid. Many people know that instead of soap, Gandhiji used a stone to scrub himself. In the two page letter to Adityanath, the Pilibhit MP listed out all the problems and demands of the farmers and at the same time also suggested solutions for the same. Sugarcane is mainly grown in western UP, which is the epicentre of the farmers’ protest in the state against the Centre’s farm laws. Farmers, who he said has been in distress, should be given an additional bonus of Rs 200 per quintal above the minimum support price ( MSP) of wheat and paddy, Gandhi said. In his letter, which he posted on his Twitter handle, Gandhi suggested that the sugarcane selling price should be increased to Rs 400 per quintal from Rs 315 in Uttar Pradesh.