Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that his Government is committed to provide appropriate prices to the farmers for their produce. For the farmers, a new scheme, Chief Minister Young Farmer Entrepreneur Scheme would be introduced. He also declared that from now on, family members of martyred Army personnel would be given ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore.
Chouhan was on Wednesday replying to the discussion on adjournment motion brought in the State Assembly. He stated that opium smugglers were engaged in the violence during farmers’ agitation and they would not be spared at any cost.
He said that around eight month ago, he had issued directives to the officials for stern action against opium smugglers and a number of them were arrested and extern action was taken against 108 miscreants.
Chouhan said that farmers had been committing suicides; this is painful, but this is fact that there are a number of reasons that force the peasants to end life.