By: Samrah Attar, Haritha Manav
Gangavva Parameshwar Avaradi's husband, Parameshwar Avaradi, sold the 3.5 acres of farmland he owned in Karnataka's Dharwad district in 2019 to the BJP state government for a sum of Rs 50 lakh. “He still hasn't received the full compensation,” Gangavva says, adding she's never owned any land in her name, nor is she a farmer. But according to the Union government, Gangavva is one of the 75,000 farmers in the country whose income has doubled between 2016-17 and 2020-21 — specifically, the government has said that she owns 4.5 acres of farmland, and has made a profit of Rs 3,07,800 in the Financial Year 2020-21 — long after her husband's land was sold.