RMS Chhina Bats for Adequate Compensation to rain-affected farmers

Ramdas, Sept. 28 (Punjab Post Bureau) – BJP senior leader Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina today toured the villages along Indo-Pak border here and demanded adequate compensation for the farmers whose crops were destroyed in the recent incessant rain. He said the farmers told him that no revenue official has visited them for the assessment of the damage and even their claims for last year’s compensation are pending.

            Chhina who along with former Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) MLA from Ajnala Amarpal Singh Bony interacted with farmers in various villages and visited Ravi river said that the rain has damaged the crops in the area heavily. “The losses of the farmers in this area are more. The farmers are already under distress near border as their cultivation hours are limited due to daily curfew by security forces”, said Chhina adding that state’s Congress’s government was paying scant regards to farmers’ woes.

            The matter of concern is that even the compensation for 2017 are pending with the government. “We have not received even the last year’s compensation despite the records submitted to the officials concerned”, said Jatinder Singh, former Sarpanch of village Pacchian on the border. Another farmer Santokh Singh from Kot Gurbaksh Singh village said the last week rain had destroyed the paddy crop and the sowing of the vegetables had also been delayed as the fields are water logged.

            “This has made the life for the farmers difficult’’, said Bony adding that even the farmers whose crop is standing would get much lower yield per acre due to the inclement weather conditions and they needed to be compensated but the government is ignoring the requests.

            Apart from this the farmers are upset over the limited hours of working in their fields across the barbed fence near the border as their agriculture land is beyond reach during night hours, lack of proper water supply, unemployment and drugs addiction leading to deteriorating law and order. Chhina also addressed a gathering at the religious congregation at Ramdas village where he attacked the state government for ignoring the border area farmers whose life is pitiable.

            “No government representative has visited the villages”, said he as the crowed roared into the applauds. A blood donation camp was also inaugurated at the town.