Orissadiary, Oct 25, 2013
Report by Debadatta Panda, Kalahandi: The farmers death at the Mundaraguda Mandi under Mundaraguda PACS is now at Rastrapati Bhawan. On a prayer of the convener of the Western Odisha farmers union the Rastrapati Bhawan interfere the matter and instructed the Chief Secretary of the State to report about the matter as soon as possible vide letter no-P2/D/1208130055 dated 12.08.13.Meanwhile the national human rights commission has also registered the case no-035/18.07.2013 and enquiry is going on in this regards . After the intervention of Rastrapati Bhawan the state joint director of Agriculture paid a visit to the deceased family on 31st August and enquired the matter. on dtd 1st September the Junagarh BDO visited the wife of late NabiDurga and provided widow pension and financial help of Rs Ten thousand from Redcross. Meanwhile the Dharamgarh Sub-Collector and SDPO have visited the spot and submitted their enquire report to the higher quarters. The administration is active now but it is very sorrowful that before the death of the late Nabi Durga if the Administration had shown kin interest to purchase the paddy while waiting for the past one week up to his turn to sell the harvested paddy at the mandi a 70 years old farmer Nabi Durga of Dangarpada in Karli villageof Rajpur panchayat under Junagarh block in Kalahandi district died on 7th July morning at the mandi. Durga was out in the open, braving the sun and rain while keeping a watch over the harvest. After reports of his death surfaced, PACS employees immediately weighed his stocks and stored it inside the godown. Durga arrived at Mundraguda mandi with his 19 packets of paddy on 1st July after received a token from the PACS authorities to sell 20 quintals of paddy. However, his stocks were found lying unsold and his requests before the authorities to push for a sale went unheard. The situation pushed him into distress and as he felt thirsty and went to his nephew’s house which is 300 mtrs away from the mandi to quench his thirst. After drinking some water he apparently fell sick and died due to exhaustion. .After the death of the said farmer Nabi Durga the PACS authority hurriedly weighed the pady and tried to suppress the matter. The incident spread shockwaves in the area. The son of late Nabi Durga had gone to Bangalore for his job and Nabi had given the assurance to his grandson Taruna who has passed the 10th exam in second class ,to give admission at the junior college at chiliguda and so that he was waiting for his dream to be a grand father of an educated children but the nature called him to heaven at the mandi. Actually, in the mandi of kalahandi the PACS authority are though the purchasing authority but undone as there is no sufficient infrastructure with them and as such the PACS always depends upon the millers tagged to them and purchasing paddy as per the own sweet will of the said millers.The millers as the business concern always wanting profits even from the farmers and so that they willfully trying to delay in paddy lifting from the mandi.If paddy lifting will delay the farmers must be harrashed and may give the paddy in under rate which can be managed by the PACS and RMC staff and the ultimately the millers will be benefitted..In this process the farmers are exploited at the mandi and running with stress and the death of late Nabi Durga is the example at Kalahandi. The administration in civil supply dept is monitoring the mandi but due to lack of supervision this type of occurrences are going on. The farmers are being exploited they are bound to deliver their paddy to the middlemen and as there are are no sufficient infrastructures in the PACS of Kalahandi the PACS are depending upon the millers for labourers, storage, gunnybags and other works during paddy procurement at Mandi and as such no strict action could be taken against the default millers. In future these problems should be looked after carefully by the administration other wise occurrence like NABIDURGA may be took place says the intellectuals. - See more at: http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=45168#sthash.gPrePjde.dpuf
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