SIVAGANGA: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has called upon farmers to give away their non-arable land for setting up industries, while assuring that the government is bound to protect the interests of the peasants.
"It is the duty of the government to protect the interests of the farmers and they too have to agree to give their wasteland and non-arable land for industries," he said at a function here yesterday.
On the "reluctance" of people to give way to industrialisation, Chidambaram said that there would have been no industries if farmers had raised slogans against giving their land decades ago.