Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the state government is standing with the farmers in the crisis caused by hailstorm. Survey work has been started in the hailstorm affected districts. After completing the survey work in a week, immediate relief will be provided to the farmers.
Joint teams of Revenue, Agriculture and Panchayat and Rural Development departments have been formed for the survey. There should be no negligence in the survey, the survey should be done with honesty and sensitivity and every affected farmer should get relief, special care should be taken that no farmer's field is left out of the survey.
Chouhan gave these instructions in the meeting held at the residence office. Principal Secretary Revenue Manish Rastogi along with officials of Revenue Department were present. Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains joined virtually.
Chouhan said that along with the survey, the list of affected farmers and losses suffered by them should be posted in the panchayats. After resolving the objections received from the farmers, the loss should be assessed with full sensitivity and transparency. Along with the relief amount, farmers will be provided the benefit of crop insurance scheme on the basis of crop cutting experiment done with updated technology. Parallel to the survey, necessary action should be taken for crop insurance scheme to compensate the farmers for the loss in time. Due to this, the amount of immediate relief given in RBC 6-4 and the crop insurance scheme will be available to the farmers. In addition to loss of crops, relief will be provided commensurate with the enhanced amount for cattle loss.
It was told that in 520 villages of 51 tehsils of the affected districts, preliminary information has been received that crops on 33 thousand 758 hectares of 38 thousand 900 farmers have been affected.