The Federation of Farmers’ Association of Karnataka led by Kurubur Shanthakumar will be holding a demonstration in Freedom Park in Bengaluru on May 14 to highlight the gross injustice meted out to a large number of farmers in the recent distribution of drought relief by the State government.
Addressing a press conference in Mysuru on Sunday, Mr. Shanthakumar said the State government had distributed compensation to only 27 lakh farmers out of the 70 lakh farmers in the State even though the government had declared drought across 224 taluks in the State.
More than 40 lakh farmers had not received any compensation even though they had lost their crops. Even among the farmers, who had received relief from the government, barely ₹500 or ₹600 had been paid to many of them even though the government had promised a compensation of ₹2,000 to each farmer.
