Solar power project companies being set up in various parts of Jaisalmer district are encroaching upon pasture lands and fields, irking the locals.
Villagers at Uttamnagar Lal Karada gram panchayat here staged a protest outside the collectorate on Saturday against a renewable power company allegedly encroaching upon the ‘khatedari’ land of farmers and doing fencing over it.
Solar power project companies being set up in various parts of Jaisalmer district are encroaching upon pasture lands and fields, irking the locals. Meanwhile, BJP leaders supporting the villagers, submitted a memorandum to ADM Hari Singh Mena and demanded action against the company.
The protesting villagers said the private solar company is doing injustice with poor farmers by forcibly encroaching the ‘khatedari’ land. The villagers alleged that through wrong measurement at khasra no.106 and 107, the tanks, fencing etc made in the ‘khatedari’ land of Jagmalram, Dalaram, Durgaram, Jhabraram and Devaram were damaged and the company forcibly possessed the land and started work there. The villagers alleged that when the women working in the fields protested, the company officers misbehaved with the women and started work there by scaring them.
The villagers protested along with the BJP on the matter. BJP district president Chandra Prakash Sharda said that the private company officers were in connivance with local tehsil administration and that police tried to forcibly possess the ‘khatedari’ land of one Chutraram and Gumanaram and others at khasra no. 106 and 107.
Source: TNN
