Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 8: Member Parliament Jammu-Poonch constituency Jugal Kishore Sharma today conducted an extensive tour of villages Baspur Bangla, Pandorian in R S Pura Sub Division and distributed compensation among farmers for Paddy crop loss due to recent heavy rain & hailstorm in R.S Pura, Suchetgarh and Bishnah constituencies.
It is pertinent to mention here that, the paddy crop has been lost by recent unseasonal heavy rainfall and windstorms. A total of crop over 5 lakh kanal land has been damaged in district Jammu a BJP handout issued here, today said.
He was accompanied with former Minister, Sham Lal Choudhary, Ex MLA Ashwani Sharma and District Development Commissioner, Sushma Chauhan, Assistant Commissioner General Jammu Mohammad Tasir Latifi, Sub Divisional Magistrates, Ram Lal and Susay, Tehsildars, concerned officers and administrative staff.
While speaking to farmers, Jugal Kishore said that Government is committed for development and doubling of farmers’ income. He informed that he along with DDC and other concerned officers conducted tour of R S Pura and Suchetgarh area to assess the crop loss. During the tour it was observed that farmers were facing lot of problems due to the damage caused to crop by unseasonal heavy rainfall. He said that it was not up to end but the matter has been taken to Divisional Commissioner and Lieutenant Governor and they were urged to direct concerned officials to do early assessment and also take up the issue with Centre level for providing compensation to farmers.
He said that fruitful efforts came in result and with the interventions of District Administration Rs 675 per kanal compensation would be given to farmers in district Jammu. Today invoices costing Rs 2 crore were distributed among the farmers and money is directly credited to their accounts. Jugal also said that more compensation to the remaining farmers would be provided soon.
The DDC informed that field functionaries of Revenue and Agriculture Department are collecting data of crop loss and compensation would be given to each beneficiary. She further informed that Rs 675 per kanal compensation would be given to each beneficiary.
District president BJP H S Pammy, Chairman, Satpal Pappi, Ramesh Saini, BDC Chairmen & Mandal presidents of BJP along with Panchs, Sarpanchs and large number of farmers were present on the occasion.
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