Fazilka farmers hail CM’s stand against Centre on value cut, say other CMs should learn from Punjab

ABOHAR: A number of farmers who attended Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann's rally at Abohar on Thursday to start disbursal of compensation for damage to wheat crop due to excessive rains and hails, expressed their gratitude towards him for taking their fight against Centre's oppression and callousness.
Mann's stand against Centre's decision to impose value cut is in right direction, stated farmers while lauding him for ensuring quick compensation to those affected by unseasonal rains across state.
No other CM ever in Punjab has taken farmers fight against centre's insane agricultural policies in such a way, they stated.
Farmer Lajwant Singh from Abohar said other CMs should learn from Punjab Chief Ministers for welfare of Annadatas.
Crop damage due to natural calamities is a common phenomenon and this year too, farmers have to bear the brunt of unseasonal rain and hailstorms.
It is for the first time that the state government has quickly initiated the process of girdawari to disburse the compensation to the affected farmers at the earliest. This pro-farmer move of the government has significantly surprised the people as well as the farmers who have suffered from this natural calamity.
Upon Bhagwant Mann distributed cheques of compensation to the farmers, a number of beneficiary farmers stated that they never had imagined that the government would come to their aid so soon.
Along with incessant rain, tornadoes had wreaked havoc in village Bakainwala in Fazilka district recently and destroyed crops and kinnow orchards and many houses across the district. When Vinod Kumar of this village was given a cheque of Rs 120,000, he could not control his feelings and overwhelmed with emotions.
He said that the district administration Fazilka, have reconstructed their houses, which got destroyed and today the compensation amount has also been received.
Village sarpanch Harjinder Singh said that the villagers were extremely elated to receive the compensation into their bank accounts.
Another beneficiary Surjit Kaur, who has been handed over a cheque of Rs 1, 20,000 after her house was damaged, said that not only has the compensation been received in 19 days, but after the girdawari in the village, the lists of affected farmers were put up at common places, to ensure a transparent process of disbursing compensation and all villages can access the information.
Another beneficiary Jagdish Kumar said that this time the work of Girdawari has been done in transparent manner and no affected farmer has been left out.