Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that amendment work will begin under the Shuddhikaran Saptah (purification week) for necessary reforms in the arrangements of departments related to farmers including the revenue department.
The farmers’ welfare works will be better accomplished through dialogue and discussion by creating a kisan manch (farmers’ forum). The work of providing benefits to farmers from various schemes will continue. Cooperation of farmers will also be taken in rescue from Corona. Chouhan was addressing a Kisan Samvad programme and Samman Samaroh organized by the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh here at Shivaji Nagar today.
Chouhan said that he was grateful to the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh for honouring him with the Kisan Mitra Samman on Saturday. "I will always live up to the honour given to me by the Kisan Sangh. By creating a record in wheat production, the hard working farmers of the state have been instrumental in getting Madhya Pradesh the first place by beating Punjab," he added.
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh has more than 500 branches in the country. The Akhil Bharatiya organizing secretary of the Sangh is present here, who is working to make this organization a means of solving the actual problems of the farmers.
The Chief Minister said that several problems of farmers were pending when he took over as the Chief Minister and the Corona crisis started last year. The state government first of all deposited the premium of `2,200 crores of crop insurance scheme, which had not been deposited by the previous government. A sum of `3,200 crores was received as a result of depositing this amount. In one year, the insurance amount of `8,699 crore rupees was deposited in the account of the farmers. Apart from this, `100 crore of the insurance of horticultural crops was also deposited. In all, an amount of `89,000 crore has been given to farmers under various
schemes.