Farmers continue to protest on the streets of India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh today. They say authorities didn't give them enough money for the purchase of their farmland to build a new highway in the region.

An ongoing protest by farmers demanding more compensation for the acquisition of their lands has intensified. In the latest scuffle, several police and local authorities were injured near Agra on Tuesday.

The controversy is over the amount of money farmers were paid for their land… so a new highway called the Yamuna Expressway could be built.

The agitated farmers staged violent protests against the administration and clashed violently with police.

The police retaliated by firing rubber bullets and tear gas shells in the air to disperse the violent crowd.

"We are making efforts to communicate with the villagers and make them understand the situation.”

Several police officials and a magistrate were injured during the scuffles.

"We have instructed everyone not to fire bullets anywhere. Some officers and staff of the local administration have been injured but the police have resorted to the usage of teargas shells to disperse the crowd. Authorities have gone to the villages and are trying to talk to the farmers so that some solution can be achieved through dialogue."

Earlier on Sunday, farmers went on a rampage in the Aligarh region of Uttar Pradesh as a mark of protest against unfair farmland acquisition for the expressway project.

The farmland has been acquired by the government for the Yamuna Expressway linking a suburb of New Delhi, and Agra, due to be completed next year.