Madhya Pradesh Revenue Minister Rampal Singh on Monday claimed in the Assembly that comprehensive system was evolved to provide adequate compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged due to recent hail and frost in several districts in the State.
Replying to a calling attention notice of Hitendra Singh Solanki of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ramniwas Rawat, Govind Singh and other members treasury and opposition benches, the Minister informed that as many as 1,086 villages were affected due to nature's fury.
Singh said that 14 people were killed due to hail and frost and compensation of Rs four lakh were distributed to each kin of the deceased. Besides 128 cattle died due to the natural calamity and funds were being provided to the owner of the bovines.
The Minister said that list of the total damage of crops would be exhibited in the panchayat office while apart from senior officials, Revenue patwaris, panch and sarpanch would be included in the investigation team.
He said that e-payment would be made to the affected peasants within one month and the minimum compensation amount would be Rs 2,000. He said that the amount would be given as per the rules.
The Minister said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was undertaking extensive visit to the affected villages for the past few days and announced to provide rice, wheat and salt Re one per kg and debt would be waived during this period.
After which Rawat demanded to provide the copy of the Chief Minister's announcement to each members of the Opposition. He also demanded that Chouhan should announce inside the House instead of in the villages.
The Minister gave reply to each members question during abut two hours discussion but the Congress members were satisfied with his reply and leader of the Opposition Bala Bachchan along with other Congress members staged a walkout.
Earlier, during Zero Hour, Rawat wanted a discussion vis--vis the natural calamity under the provision of 139. But Speaker Sitasaran Sharma rejected his demand saying that the same matter was taken up during the calling attention notice.
As Congress members stuck to their demand of discussion over the issue and the House witnessed a pandemonium. However, the matter was settled down it was slated for the next calling attention notice.