AIKS supports Bengal's industrialisation

Kolkata, Jan 6 (UNI) The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), today extended ''total support'' to the West Bengal Government's land acquasition and industrialisation policy in the state.

''We are 100 per cent supporting the government's policy on land acquisition, industrialisation and Special Economic Zone policy. We expect that the other states will follow Bengal's model,'' AIKS president S R Pillai told newsmen here.

He said the land should be converted for setting up industries and the government should take care of food security, employment and environmental problems. Without industrialisation, employment opportunity and the state's growth cannot be possible, he added.

He said the government was not taking up multi-crop land enmasse, but on a minimum scale and in a planned manner.

''We are also expecting that the government to deploy the farmers to the industrial sector and that adequate compensation be given to the affected people in a planned manner,'' Mr Pillai said.

The AIKS called upon the peasantry to organise campaigns on February 15 and March 17 against the centre for implementing major and progressive recommendations of the National Commission on farmers' accept the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee with respect to the said bill and make necessary modifications, he added.

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