Farmers protest, allege revenue officials seek bribe to move files

Time of India

2 days ago

Noida: A group of farmers from Dadri staged a sit-in at the tehsil office Thursday, accusing revenue officials, particularly lekhpals and kanungos, of seeking hefty bribes for moving files for minor works like land measurement, property mutation entry or clearance for road access.
This is the second such protest by farmers within a week. Last week, a group of farmers staged a demonstration at the Sadar tehsil over the same issues.
Ranbir Singh (50), who owns a three-bigha farmland in Nagla Chamru village, told TOI that he had approached a kanungo (records and revenue official) after a path leading from his field to the main road on khasra number 532—khasra is a unique number allotted to each plot in the revenue records—was occupied by a few other farmers, cutting him off from his field since July.
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"A few farmers have occupied the pathway and started cultivating crops on it. So, I am unable to reach my own field or water it. I've complained multiple times, but the tehsil staff did nothing. On July 27, when I met the Kanungo, he rightaway told me what his rate was," Singh, who mostly cultivates wheat and rice, said. The farmer claimed the official asked him to pay Rs 50,000 to get the path cleared.
Another farmer, Chaudhary Praveen Bhartiya, said land tillers were regularly harassed and made to run from one counter to another for basic services, like earmarking field boundaries to getting road access.
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"Unless we pay bribes, files don't move," he said.
Farmers, under the banner of Corruption Free India movement, also met SDM Anuj Nehra and submitted a memorandum addressed to the chief minister.
The SDM, however, claimed the allegations of bribery were false. She also ruled out any delay in land documentation work and claimed farmers could not submit any specific complaint that required her intervention. "I listened to their concerns personally, but there were no other specific complaints being raised that required action from my side," Nehra said.
The SDM claimed that they had surveyed the area in Nagla Chamru village after a farmer submitted a complaint and found that a road existed in the area.
"The complainant is demanding that a pathway should be carved on a plot that passes through a neighbouring field, and this cannot be done," she said.
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