Farmers seek representation in NITI Aayog

January 08, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:37 am IST - Tirupur:

“Farming population has shrunk in the country by about 25 per cent since Independence and continues to dwindle at a steady pace. Farmers’ suicides are still a concern. “To arrest the trend and save the farm sector, the farming community should be given adequate representation in the newly constituted NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog that replaced the Planning Commission”. This is one of the key suggestions now put forward by the confederation of various associations under the umbrella organisation of Federation of Tamil Nadu Agriculturists Associations to the Union Government.

One member

C. Nallasamy, secretary of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Agriculturists Associations, told The Hindu that the Union Government should give representation at the rate of at least one member of the farming community from each State in the NITI Aayog.

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