Agriculture Minister Ravindra Choubey on Wednesday announced in the state assembly that compensation would be provided to the affected farmers within 15 days whose crops were devastated by the hailstorm and untimely rains in the months of January and February this year.
The issue was raised by Leader of Opposition Dharamlal Kaushik, BJP legislators Dr Krishnamurthy Bandhi and Rajnesh Singh by moving call attention motion. They charged that neither any survey was conducted for the damage to standing Rabi crop, nor did the government give any financial assistance to the affected farmers.
Replying to them the Revenue Minister earlier informed that revenue department had already rook stock of the situation.
The Agriculture Minister further informed that Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had already directed all the district collectors of the state to evaluate the damage caused to the crops due to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm, and to submit the evaluation report within a week.
The minister informed that the Chief Minister has given instructions to provide financial aid to affected farmers as per the provisions of RBC 4-6, in case the crop damage due to natural calamity is more than 33%. Revenue Department has issued letters to all the collectors, directing them to send evaluation report of crop damage within a week in the prescribed format.