Farmers in Noida will not go to the freeway in protest, at least not for a week

Noida: District farmers made the decision to stay off the streets for at least a week after authorities asked for additional time to form a committee to investigate their requests for larger abadi land and more pay.

The farmers met with district magistrate Manish Kumar Verma and the CEOs of Noida and Greater Noida, Lokesh M and Ravi Kumar NG, on Tuesday morning. The farmers are not associated with the Delhi Chalo controversy, but they have been demonstrating outside the offices of the Noida and Greater Noida authorities for a number of demands over the past few months.
“The authorities asked for a week to organize a high-level committee to review our requests. They guaranteed that by February 18th, the panel will be completed. Unlike in other regions of the NCR, we won’t be hitting the streets until then. Nonetheless, we will go on with our sit-in outside the offices, said Rupesh Verma, the All India Kisan Sabha’s district president.
However, when Delhi Police partly closed the borders on the DND Flyway, Kalindi Kunj, and Chilla on Tuesday morning, the city felt the effects. Even with the traffic, the scenario was not at all like Ghaziabad, where the amount of traffic diverted from the Delhi-Meerut Expressway jammed interior roadways.
Traffic restrictions went into effect as early as 8 a.m. when police started erecting barriers on the DND Flyway close to the MCD toll booth, which is where a loop from Mayur Vihar joins the main road. Rush-hour traffic in Delhi moved slowly because two of the four lanes were blocked.
Around ten in the morning, the snarls peaked as the tailback became longer. However, things began to improve by midday.
Sector 77 attorney Hilal Haider was on his way to the Delhi High Court. It had been about an hour since I became stranded on the DND Flyway. I have three hearings today, so I need to go at the HC by 11 a.m. He told TOI that the traffic officers need to have made better plans.
Two roads were blocked off at the Chilla border as well, and a group of police officers were waiting nearby with water cannons, fire tenders, and earthmovers. Only a few lanes were available at Kalind Kunj as well, which made it difficult to go across the area from the Okhla Bird Sanctuary metro station to the Kalindi Kunj bridge.
After DCP (traffic) Anil Kumar Yadav checked the boundaries and urged police to make it easier for people to commute, the traffic began to clear up. “To stop farmers from entering the metropolis, Delhi Police has erected barriers across borders in the National metropolis Region. We also sent out staff to deal with any form of gridlock in the traffic. Thankfully, there wasn’t a traffic bottleneck since cars kept moving, although slowly,” he said.