To avoid an embarrassing situation, the state government invited agitating leaders for talks on Sunday night. (Express Photo: Deepak Joshi) To avoid an embarrassing situation, the state government invited agitating leaders for talks on Sunday night. They are in Mumbai seeking, not a loan waiver, but the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The Forest Rights Act seeks to accord rights to forest-dwelling communities including Individual Forest Rights’ and Community Forest Rights, and through the forest resources, a livelihood. On the Rs 34,000-crore farm loan waiver announced and implemented by the Maharashtra government, the protestors — many of them out of the ambit of the waiver owing to the conditions imposed — are seeking a complete, condition-free loan waiver.

Source: Indian Express March 11, 2018 20:24 UTC