On the occasion, both the ministers also carried out a comprehensive review of the administrative arrangements made by the Delhi government to provide relief in the low-lying areas affected by floods.
The issue of huge loss of human lives, properties and wide spread crop damages rocked the state assembly.
The BJP government should stop making empty statements and pay for the losses suffered by the farmers of the state, said the former Haryana CM.
Hundreds of bighas of agricultural land in the Khanakul-2 block area are inundated by a large volume of irrigation water released by DVC for boro rice cultivation.
Deeply upset over the kharif crop loss due to recent unseasonal rain, a debt-ridden small and marginal farmer in Odisha’s Kendrapara district died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
Providing immediate relief to farmers in distress due to crop loss during the recent floods, the Uttar Pradesh government has released an amount of over Rs 150 crore. This amount was allocated based on district demands to cover crop losses.
Mann expressed the hope that this will give much-needed relief to the farmers in this hour of crisis. He said the farmers can pay back the amounts later after they recover from the losses.
Presently, general claims under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) are settled on the basis of yield data arrived from the crop cutting experiments (CCEs).
In order to get timely and accurate data of crop loss for early payment of insurance claims to the farmers,…
