Members of Karnataka Pranta Krishi Koolikarara Sangha (KPKKS) staged a protest outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Tuesday and urged the State government to fulfil their demands.
They took out a rally from the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway.
The agitators urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to provide 30 kg of rice every month to each family living below the poverty line at a cost of Rs. 2 per kg.
They also demanded that the government drop the free rice scheme under ‘Anna Bhagya.’
They insisted upon title deeds for bagair hukum farmers, hikes in the monthly pension amount under Indira Gandhi Old Age Pension Scheme, the extension of the deadline for linking Aadhaar numbers with ration card, the distribution of ration cards to new applicants and solutions to irregularities in social security schemes such as Sandhya Suraksha and Manaswini.
