NHAI wants farmers’ removal from UP Gate site, says protest causing damage to DME

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has raised concerns about the maintenance of a stretch of the newly constructed Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) due to the ongoing farmers’ protest at the UP Gate near Delhi border. The highways authority has written to the Ghaziabad district magistrate, requesting for removal of farmers from the DME.

Hundreds of farmers under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) have been staging protests at the UP Gate since November last year, demanding rollback of the Centre’s three new farm laws and a new law on minimum support price.