Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has announced that the Chhattisgarh Government will convene a special session of the State Assembly to pass the current financial year’s supplementary budget after provisioning an amount for distribution of bonus to the farmers.
Singh was addressing Panchs and Sarpanchs of three districts who are on a visit of Raipur and Naya Raipur under the ‘Hamar Chhattisagarh’ programme at his official residence on Friday evening.
Singh said that the State Government will distribute total bonus amounting to Rs 2,100 crore at the rate of Rs 300 per quintal of crop to the farmers for Kharif season 2016-17 . Bonus will also be distributed to farmers in the coming year.
The Chief Minister said that the amount for this year’s bonus will be distributed to the farmers before Diwali.