Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / Jan 5, 2021
Amid the farmers’ protests on the Delhi borders, the Uttar Pradesh government has now deputed senior police officials in the National Capital Region (NCR) districts to maintain law and order.
The cops of the additional director general (ADG), inspector general (IG) and deputy IG (DIG) ranks have been instructed to camp in their respective districts till further orders.
In all, senior cops have been moved to 17 districts in Western UP, including the NCR, viz. Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Hapur, Meerut, Moradabad, Shamli, Bulandshahar, Amroha etc.
The officials have been mandated to avert any untoward incident, which could affect the law and order situation, and to preempt any protests and demonstrations.
Meanwhile, the UP government will launch a three-week farm outreach programme ‘Kisan Kalyan Mission’ from January 6. It is part of the larger agenda of doubling the rural income and will cover all the assembly constituencies spanning 350 blocks in the 75 districts of the state.
There are an estimated 23 million farmers’ households in UP, of which more than 21 million or 90 per cent are small and marginal farmers with fragmented land holdings and subsisting on low farm income.
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