Work as security guards

They previously owned the land where swank high-rises have come up in this business hub adjacent the general assets. Injudicious use of the cash they earned from developers has now seen many of them working as safety guards in those extremely buildings.

"Uneducated or less-educated farmers are now working as confidential safety guards or driving autos to make their livelihood," Omprakash Yadav, leader of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti farmers' association, told IANS.

"I got more than Rs.2 crore by selling nearly three acres of undeveloped land at Sihi village, now Sector 83-84. I purchased six acres in a village in Mahendergarh district, built up a 'kothi' (bungalow) and buy a SUV," Kanwar Yadav, 48, told IANS.

"I never consideration that currency would terminate one day. I had to sell my SUV after one and a half years. Now I am working as a confidential safety protector in a building on my own land," he added.

His story is parallel to that of a lot of farmers who once owned land on the stretch among Gurgaon and Manesar.

Mahesh Yadav, 34, gives up his job as a Haryana Police constable a few years ago when he conventional more than Rs.1.5 crore by selling land.

"He used to rejoice and give parties on the birthdays of his family members. Once he prepared a party to rejoice the birthday of his pet. He drove a Mahindra Scorpio for two years. Now, he works as the driver of a confidential vehicle," said an elderly occupant of Sikanderpur village.

"My seven-member families stay alive on the little rent that comes from my plot in Gurgaon city. I had not at all consideration it would come to this," Mahender Singh rued.

Ramesh, 38, has an alike story. After getting almost Rs.80 lakh in 2006, he purchased some cultivation land in Rewari district, opened a hardware store and bought a Hyundai Santro car. By 2011, he closed the store, sold the Santro, and now he drives a three-wheeler of his own.

Omprakash, 40, of Rampura rural community now works as the helper of a sub-contractor, building flats on the land in division 82 that includes five acres that were once his.

"I had an touching extra with my land, but I sold it since there was a physically powerful rumor that the government would acquire it," Omprakash said.

"Many of the semi-illiterate farmers and their families, in the absence of proper guidance and experience, got into the habit of profligacy without generate proper sources of usual profits," Anurag Bakshi, a former Indian income service (IIS) officer, told IANS.

"They insisted on buying expensive cars and building a bigger house than their neighbours'. There would be competitions in hosting lunches to which hundreds of villages were requested. They exhausted blindly on their marriage ceremonies," Bakshi added. And one day, the currency just ran out, leaving them high and dry.