In its recent order, Forum President Umesh V Jhavalikar and member N D Kadam directed that the company Satyen Shah Vijay Engineering and Machinery Company should replace the power tiller given to farmer Yeshwant Laxman Jadhav free of cost and within 8 weeks pay him a sum of Rs 50,000 as compensation towards losses on account of not being able to cultivate his land during the crop season.
Jadhav was one of the beneficiaries of the scheme implemented by the Social Welfare department of Maharashtra government providing power tillers to farmers from backward community. As per the scheme, the department selects the beneficiaries and gives them power tiller free of cost for the farming activities.
One such tiller purchased from the company was given to Jadhav by the Social welfare department of the Thane Zilla Parishad on July 23, 2008. As it was half way through the season, Jadhav could not put it to use.
Finding that the machine was erratic, he made a complaint to the company which ignored it. Jadhav brought this to the notice of Social Welfare department which agreed that the tiller provided was defective and was not manufactured by a reputed company and needs to be replaced.
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