Bharat Bandh

 

Our department Journalism & Mass Communication had plan to field visit some places. We  decided that we will go to visit at first civil hospital of Phagwara  and after that  we will go to visit  police station of Phagwara. We all were prepared.  Suddenly our visit was postponed. We knew the reason that, that day was “Bharat Bandh”. Today is holiday but Gram in  Bharat bandh schedule was from 6 am to 4 pm . It is not only here Delhi, Haryana and Punjab’s farmer also protesting that. But today was Punjab bandh. Bharat Bandh organized by the Kashan Mazdoor Mocha and Samyukat  Krishna. The central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukat Kisan Morcha (SKN) had jointly given a united call for an industrial and sectoral strike. Several farmers union called for a gram in Bharat bandh or nationwide strike last Friday. The Bharat  Bandh call comes even as hundreds of farmers marching from Punjab  have been stopped at the state’s border with Haryana near Ambala, about two hundreds kilometers  away from Delhi. Haryana Security forces have used tear gas on them to try and dispersed them. Anyway for the cause of Bharat Bandh Transportation, Agricultural Activities, rural works, private offices, village shops, and rural industrial and service sector institutions was closed due to farmers unions, nationwide strike. But some emergency services such as ambulance operations, newspaper distribution, marriage, medical shop and exams are unlikely to be affected during the strike. We collected  news  from many sources this is the cause of Bharat bandh. We knew farmers are back on the streets of Punjab and Haryana with their demand for a law guaranteeing a minimum support price or MSP for their produce. The farmers also want to strengthen the MGNREGS and they also want social security.  The SKM has written to prime minister Narendra Modi  Demanding a  MSP for crops based on the Swaminathan formula of C2 50  legal guarantee of procurement, and debt waiver. They also demanded free three hundred units of power for farming and domestic use and shops and they also want their pensions. We saw that kind of incident at 2020. That year in 2020 farmers from different states, mainly Punjab, Haryana and UttarPrades had staged a sit-in-at the Singh, Gazipur and Tikri Borders. They sat there from August 2020 to December 2021. We don’t know what happen will tomorrow. But we  want solve the problem. It is my opinion that, being the largest contributor of main serials to the country, Punjab has earn the title of Granary of India or Bread Basket of India.  So government should solve their problem and take some reasonable steps for farmers. Because agriculture is a great matter  for any country. If government implement and fulfill farmers demand  than there will not happen any occurrence.