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Yamuna farmers' woes fall on deaf ears
The Morning Standard
|September 07, 2024
With cultivation not allowed and loans on their head, they seek policies for their rehabilitation

SITTING underneath the plastic sheet of a shelter which he now calls home, Ajit Kumar looks dejectedly at the fields beyond Yamuna plains. "I have no idea if I will even be able to harvest my crops this time," the 52year-old said.
Ajit and his family are among a dozen tenant farmers, mostly migrants from western Uttar Pradesh, who cultivate the land at Yamuna Khadar and Chilla Khadar villages near Mayur Vihar Phase I. These villages are situated in Zone O, an area under the Draft Delhi Master Plan 2041, where farming is prohibited.
"The DDA routinely demolishes our Jhuggis and destroys our crops. For this reason, we no longer even build jhuggis and stay beneath makeshift plastic sheets," he said.
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