Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met farmers at village Mardwani in Betul district and took stock of crop loss in the fields. He inspected hailstorm-affected field of Bhadu Adivasis. Consoling farmers, he said that adequate compensation against crop loss will be given to farmers even if development works have to be deferred. At village Khanjanpur, the Chief Minister gave cheque of Rs8.96 lakh under Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana to Dheeraj Uikay.
The Chief Minister said that people will also participate in survey of crop loss. He said that apart from staff of Revenue, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, 5 people of every affected village should also be included in survey team. He directed to display list of survey at Panchayat building. He said that loans from farmers will not be recovered this year and interest will be paid by government. He also directed for survey of non-fruit bearing variety of arhar.
Chouhan said that affected farmers will be provided loans at zero per cent interest rate and wheat, rice and salt at the rate of Rs1 per kg till next crop. Besides, affected farmers will also be given Rs25,000 for marriage of their daughters. He also directed not to recover electricity bills from affected farmers till next crop.
The Chief Minister directed commissioner and collector to initiate process of crop cutting experiment to provide benefit of crop insurance scheme to affected farmers. Under it, State Government will pay remaining amount payable to farmers in addition to crop insurance money.
In-charge Minister Sartaj Singh, MP Jyoti Dhurve, MlAs Hemant Khandelwal, Sajjan Singh Uikay, Chandrashekhar Deshmukh, Chetram Manekar, Mahendra Singh Chouhan, senior administrative officers and public representatives were present on the occasion.