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Call to declare farmers as ‘special weaker section’

SIRSI: Benefits of developing economy is not reaching people in rural areas, 80 per cent of whom are farmers. Hence, farmers should be declared as “special weaker section” and the Government should provide economic and social securities through rights and constitutional protection, said G. Dakshinamurthy, Director, Karnatak Institute for Law and Parliamentary Reforms (KILPAR).

He was delivering the Justice G.N. Vaidya 15th Endowment Lecture on “Farmers’ Bill of Rights, a socio-legal approach to farmers’ problems” at M.E.S. Law College here on Saturday. He said that 80 per cent of farmers were small land holders and a large number of landless people depended on them for work. Most of them were living below the poverty line.

As the benefits of economic development were not reaching them, economic imbalance between farmers and industrialists was widening.

Farmers were deprived of equal share of national income and basic needs. Till 1990, 38 per cent of the national income was from the agricultural sector. Now, it had come down to 26 per cent, he said.

MLC Mohan Limbikai released a booklet. MES president Shantaram Hegde presided over the function.

G.G. Hegde Kadekodi welcomed the gathering.

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