As announced earlier, the State Government on Monday asked the district Collectors to complete verification process and pay Special Calamity Assistance (SCA) to farmers from whom paddy was procured during the kharif marketing season (KMS) of 2013-14, by May 30.
A total amount Rs 150 crore will be disbursed under the SCA head, official sources said.
The State Government had announced to give SCA of Rs 100 per quintal of paddy in addition to the MSP to farmers as paddy was hit by both cyclone Phailin and subsequent floods in October 2013. As per the announcement, a farmer will get SCA upto 100 quintals of paddy.
Food Supply and Consumer Welfare Secretary Madhusudan Padhi has asked all Collectors to complete the verification process of farmers, who sold paddy during the last KMS, through the Tehsildars and make payment directly to the their bank accounts by May 30.
Meanwhile, the digitisation of purchase registers for paddy procurement has been completed at block and urban local bodies (UlB) levels. Subsequently, consolidated special calamity assistance reports are being printed for preparation of list of farmers. Now the verification and correction of list of farmers are in progress, sources said. A total of 33.78 metric tonnes of paddy, which is equivalent to 22 lakh 39,138 MT of rice, were procured during the last KMS ending April 30.