Siya Ram Singh had come all the way from Dalegaon district of Maharashtra.
“The Narmada Bachao Andolan informed us of the rally. We collected money from our village to get here. I am paid Rs 2,000 per quintal for the wheat I grow and Rs 1,200 for jowar. We lost our land due to the Sardar Sarovar Dam and we were resettled in Dalegaon. But life is tough here. We can’t even pay our agricultural labour. We want to be paid one and a half times the cost of our produce so that we can pay the people who plough our fields and save some money for ourselves,” he said.
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