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• Farmers whose land is acquired by Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries in the state will get a compensation of Rs 5 lakh per acre from 2012-13 onwards.Chandrapur MP Hansraj Ahir told the media on Saturday that the compensation was Rs 1 lakh per acre in 2010-11. "After lot of efforts I got it increased to Rs 2 lakh and now it has become Rs 5 lakh," he said.

• The policy will be applicable for those farmers who have not collected their compensation in acquisition cases from 2000 onwards. He claimed that there were around 10,000 families, which will benefit from the decision. "I will try to persuade the government to increase the compensation of those farmers who had taken the compensation during this period. Development should not come at the cost of farmers," he said.

• The BJP leader charged chief minister Prithviraj Chavan with meting out injustice to the farmers of Vidarbha. "Chhattisgarh government has decided the rate of acquisition of land for coal mines. There are three category: fallow, non-irrigated and irrigated. I have been urging Chavan to formulate a similar policy in Maharashtra. But, he says that if such a policy was announced for mines then same would apply to irrigation and other projects. I contended that there was no harm if that was done as farmers should get adequate compensation," he said.

• "A few weeks ago some Congress MPs and even the state rehabilitation minister Patangrao Kadam supported by contention but the CM refused," Ahir rued.The MP further said that central government had sent him a communication stating that National Disaster Management Training Centre will be started in Nagpur and the project was in initial stages.

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