Gujarat farmers not ready to give up fields
Since the past two months, villagers in Surendranagar and Ahmedabad districts have been seething with anger. They have held tractor rallies, motorcycle rallies and street corner meetings. “This is our land and not the government’s,” shout the villagers. “Weed out real estate brokers like insects from your farms,” they chant.
Eleven Special Investment Regions (SIRs) are being proposed in Gujarat along a Designated Freight Corridor (DFC), a 1,418 km railway line across the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The railway line will seamlessly connect the two cities. Four SIRs will come up in Ahmedabad and Surendranagar districts.