Cong seeks special girdwari to assess crop losses
Monday, 08/09/2014
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Chandigarh : Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday demanded that special girdwari should be ordered in the villages, which had been affected by heavy rains during the last couple of days, leading to severe crop damage to paddy in Majha, Doaba and parts of Malwa in the state.
In a statement, here, he said Punjab earlier suffered due to drought but the farmers did not allow the crops to get damaged by relying more on diesel pump sets which added to the input cost putting additional burden on them.
“At the time when the crops were nearing maturity, part of the state had been affected due to untimely heavy rains which had complicated the situation,” he pointed out.
He rapped the state government for not demanding adequate compensation from the Centre as drought relief while a smaller state like Haryana had sought a bigger package.
He pointed that the worst sufferers were the cotton growers in the Malwa belt due to heavy rains. Paddy crop too had been adversely damaged in certain areas, he said.
He urged the Badal government to take immediate steps to bring requisite financial help from the NDA government at the Centre to provide succour to the suffering farmers.
