The Chhattisgarh Cabinet on Wednesday took a decision to encourage farmers use water from rivers and nullahs to meet their irrigation requirements for saving paddy crop.
It was decided in the meeting that diesel pump subsidy of Rs2,000 to Rs4,000 would be provided to the farmers at the rate of two hectares of land.
The Energy Department was also directed in the meeting to accept application for temporary power connections for irrigation pumps till September 30 this year.
It was also decided in the meeting that jobs would be provided to the villagers from all 150 Tehsils through MGNREGS.
A quintal of rice would be kept in advance in all the Gram Panchayat offices of the State to ensure no villager dies of hunger , the Cabinet decided.