The State Government would bring a Bill in the coming monsoon session of the Assembly to safeguard the interests of sharecroppers.
An inter-Ministerial panel of the Government on Friday took a decision to bring a new law to provide compensation of input subsidy, insurance cover, relief and other benefits to sharecroppers in the event of crop loss which are hitherto unavailable to them under the existing law for sharecroppers.
Revenue Minister Bijayashree Routray told reporters, “As per the decision taken at the meeting, an agreement will be inked between the landlord and the sharecropper in the presence of the local Revenue Inspector (RI). The RI and the local tehsildar will each keep a copy of the signed agreement.
The decision of the inter-Ministerial committee will be placed before the Cabinet for its approval. We have planned to place the Bill before the Assembly for its approval during the forthcoming monsoon session.”