In wake of delayed rain in the current monsoon season, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani reviewed the emerging situation at a high-level meeting held under his chairmanship in Gandhinagar.
The meeting was also attended by Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel, other ministers and senior officials of the State Government. In the meeting, the Chief Minister had reviewed the situation about available stocks of important commodities like drinking water, fodder, electricity supply to the farmers for irrigation and others.
Rupani asserted that there was enough quota of drinking water in the water reservoirs of the State, thus, he instructed to the administration to ensure that the citizens getuninterrupted drinking water supply,without any problem.
He further pointed out that the Tappar Dam located in arid Kutch district would be filled with 500 MCFT Narmada waters on war-footing to meet the situation emerging out of occurrence of very less rain in that area.
The meeting also decided to continue the distribution of th e fodder at a concessional rate of Rs 2/- per kg for the animals of Gau Shalas and Panjara Poles located in all the 44 talukas of the state which have received less than 125 mm of rain. Earlier, the last date for this scheme was 31st July, 2018. The meeting also decided to supply electricity to the farmers for 10 hours, instead of 8-hours, for the irrigations. Of these 44 talukas, maximum ten talukas were from arid Kutch district, followed by eight from Banaskantha, six each from Patan and Surendranagar, four from Ahmedabad, three from Mehsana, two each from Morbi and Jamnagar, and one each from Bhavnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka, and Gandhinagar.
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Meeting for grievances related to land re-survey
A high level meeting of a committee of four ministers chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel was held on Wednesday to study complaints and grievances related to land re-survey conducted in the state. The mammoth work of land re-survey was given to nine different agencies for Rs 264 crore. The work of re-survey initiated from coastal Jamnagar district almost completed covering over 18000 villages across the state. According to Dy CM mapping of more than 1.70 crore sq mt areas completed so far. He claimed that more than 98 per cent farmers were happy with the re-survey work and the state government would address grievances of less than 2 per cent peasant as early as possible.