CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday stated farmers whose crops had been broken as a result of latest hailstorm shall be given a compensation larger than the present fee of Rs 12,000 per acre.
This shall be introduced on the subsequent cupboard assembly, he stated in Jharothi village in Sonipat district.
The chief minister was talking in a programme associated to crop failure, in response to an official assertion.
Khattar made a number of bulletins for the farmers in Jharothi village, and stated he himself is a farmer’s son and your entire Haryana is like his household.
“Haryana is a land of farmers. When farmers are blissful, then solely shopkeepers, employees, merchants, and other people operating factories shall be benefitted,” he stated.
Taking a dig on the earlier Congress authorities, Khattar stated when crops had been broken attributable to rains again then, cash was once deposited within the accounts of the farmers after one and a half months.
“In the course of the earlier governments, cheques of solely as much as Rs 2, Rs 4 and Rs 10 had been additionally given to the farmers,” he claimed.
When the brand new authorities was shaped within the state, it was determined that no farmer’s cheque could be made lower than Rs 500, Khattar stated.
Within the earlier governments, Rs 5,700 per acre was given as compensation for crop failure, and it was later elevated to Rs 7,500, the chief minister stated.
When the brand new authorities was shaped, it introduced a compensation of Rs 12,000 per acre, he added.
Khattar stated he has already carried out an aerial inspection of the villages of Gohana, Julana and Kharkhoda blocks for crop failure.
