President Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee and Rajya Sabha MP Kumari Selja has demanded the State Government to conduct a special girdawari of crops damaged due to recent heavy rains and hailstorms, and award minimum compensation of Rs 35,000 per acre to farmers.
She said that if a farmer has suffered more loss, he should be compensated accordingly.
Selja said that in the initial phase of this unseasonal rainfall, she had demanded that the government should conduct special girdawari of crops and provide compensation to all affected farmers within 20 days. But even after 8 days, the government has so far not taken any concrete steps in this regard, she said.
She again demanded the government to give priority to the interests of the farmers and provide relief to the affected farmers with immediate effect.
The Congress leader said, due to recent heavy rains and hailstorms in many districts of the state, wheat, mustard, vegetables and other crops have suffered damages of more than 80 percent.
The farmer of the state was already frustrated and disappointed with the anti-people policies of this government. Now that the crop is fully mature in the fields, the farmer is not in position to survive this damage caused by nature. The government should take effective steps to provide relief to the farmers with immediate effect, she added.
Selja said, the government should not leave the farmers at the disposal of crop insurance scheme, because till date the farmers have not received the compensation of last year under this plundering scheme.
She added that compensation should be given to all the farmers of the state, whose crops have been damaged, irrespective of the fact he has got insurance or not.