Pradesh Congress Committee president Niranjan Patnaik on Monday alleged that the State Government has announced the KALIA scheme to befool the farmers and to get electoral gains only.
“There is no irrigation facility for agriculture lands and farmers don’t get quality seeds and remunerative price for their produce. In this scenario how the KALIA scheme will benefit the farmers,” wanted to know Niranjan.
Stating that agriculture sector’s share to the State Gross Domestic Product had decreased in the past few years, Patnaik said the State Government in connivance with the BJP Government at the Centre is getting Krishi Karman award.
The PCC chief said the Naveen Patnaik Government has mastered in announcing failed schemes with fancy names, which have failed in checking farmerss suicide in the State.
He said the hydro electricity generation and irrigation capacity of the Hirakud dam project would decrease in coming years as de-silting is not being done and water-flow from the upper basin of the Mahanadi has already decreased. He wanted to know the status of seven dam projects that the Chief Minister announced to construct in the downstream Mahanadi.