Pimpalgaon Baswant: Thousands of farmers will now be benefited by the decision of CCTV to bring more transparency in Pimplegaon Baswant Market Committee. This decision is being appreciated at every level. Incidents took place in the premises of the Pimpalgaon market committee, which often resulted in differences of opinion between farmers, middlemen and traders. Widely known through newspapers and social media, there have also been incidents of assault on farmers.
Buying agricultural commodities with excess weight, due to many such incidents there have been differences between farmers and traders, so Pimpalgaon Bazar Krishi Upaj Mandi Samiti has set up 125 CCTV cameras to avoid such malpractices and bring transparency in the work. It has been decided to organize this auction under the supervision of Farmers will benefit from this important decision of Pimpalgaon Market Committee.
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Agricultural Produce Market Committee has been formed for the convenience of the farmers, yet the farmers are suffering due to the arbitrariness of the traders, many market committees are the guardians of these traders, due to which the farmers are being looted by a large number of traders.
– Sampatrao Daund, Farmer, Shirwade Vani
Earlier the marketing federation had ordered the use of electric weighbridges in the State Market Committee. Now in the general meeting of the market committee, it has been decided to install CCTV. The installation of CCTV cameras will bring transparency by the chairman of the market committee, Dilip Bankar. He said that income of Pimpalgaon market committee and other agricultural commodities is increasing day by day, similarly there were many disputes between farmers and traders regarding weight reduction.
The Market Committee has created history by taking a historic decision to cancel the licenses of eight middlemen. Some accidents took place in the premises of the Interim Market Committee, which caused a lot of resentment among the farmers.
– Sharad Kale, Shirwade Vani
Farmers are becoming victims of the arbitrariness of traders. Mandi committee chairman Dilip Bankar said that it has been decided to install CCTV in the premises of the market committee to bring transparency in the auction and to put pressure on the traders who behave arbitrarily with the farmers.
The incident of assault took place in the premises of Karanjkhed Bazar Committee of Aurangabad district. A merchant gave him a good price while taking grain from the farmers, but the angry traders asked him the answer, later the dispute escalated so much that the situation turned into a fight. Traders with criminal tendencies beat up those who stood for the farmers.
– Atul Shah