CM releases funds towards crop insurance to Haveri farmers

Haveri: For many months now, farmers of Haveri district, which is where chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has been elected from, have been praying for the disbursal of insurance for the crops they lost owing to heavy rain. Their prayers have now been answered. The CM released Rs 16.5 crore, which will be distributed among 9,204 farmers across the district. Although the farmers across the district had paid the premium for the insurance in 2018-19, this was not mapped to the survey carried out by the authorities to ascertain ownership of property, and farmers. Consequently, farmers were unable to claim insurance for the losses they incurred. Notwithstanding the many demonstrations they held demanding compensation, their pleas went unheeded.
Sources said that more than one lakh farmers had paid premium towards crop insurance in 2018-19 across Haveri district. However, the 9,204 farmers had been denied the compensation owing to discrepancies in the data.

General secretary of the Haveri district units of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, and Hasiru Sene, Mallikarjun Ballari said, “We have been waiting for years to see the farmers reimbursed for their losses. The CM, also the MLA for the Shiggaon-Savanur assembly constituency, has released the funds. We are thankful to the CM for his gesture, and his concern for the welfare of farmers.”