Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took stock of the damage to crops caused by hailstorm in Mohagaon of block Kurai, district Seoni, on Sunday.
Assuring the farmers of every kind of relief, Chouhan said that relief work at a wide scale will be carried out in the hailstorm-affected areas, to enable people to get employment.
Chouhan has informed farmers that local public representatives of villages and panchs will also be included in the teams being formed for the survey of loss caused to the crops due to the hailstorm. He mentioned that help will be provided to the farmers under the RBC 6-4, who have suffered damage to their houses and loss to cattle. Every possible effort is being made by the state government to compensate the loss of the farmers. The state government is with the farmers in this hour of crisis, he added.
Besides, Chouhan has told farmers that the state government has increased the relief amount, given at the time of natural calamities from Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 per hectare. Benefit of crop insurance will be provided to the affected farmers immediately, loan recovery will be postponed and interest will be waived off.
Besides this, the affected farmers will be given agriculture loan on zero per cent interest rate and recovery of electricity bills will remain postponed. Besides, Chouhan said that the state government will provide financial assistance of Rs 25,000 to the affected farmers, if they wish to solemnize daughter’s marriage at home under the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah Yojana.
Chouhan was apprised by the Administration that crop of 280 villages has been affected in the district. Survey work is being carried out with utmost priority in the district. Chouhan was accompanied by Members of Parliament Shri Phaggan Singh Kulaste, Bodh Singh Bhagat, Minister District In-Charge Sharad Jain, MlAs Thakur Rajnish Singh, Kamal Marskole, Dinesh Rai, President district Panchayat Mina Bisen, other Public Representatives and Senior Officers during his visit to the village.