Lucknow, March 5 (UNI) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday released Rs 23 crore for compensation to the farmers in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh, which have been most impacted by hail storms and rains in the last three days in terms of damaged crops.
The CM has directed the Relief department to immediately transfer the compensation amount to the accounts of the affected farmers on the basis of the survey report. Additionally, in other districts of the state, the survey of damaged crops is almost complete and payment of compensation to the farmers is underway on the basis of the survey report.
Principal Secretary (Revenue) P Guru Prasad said that on the directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, all the District Magistrates of the state were sent to the agricultural farms to conduct an on-site assessment of the damages caused to the crops by the inclement weather.
He said, "Subsequently, the DMs of the nine most affected districts submitted their reports on the damages caused to the crops by untimely rainfall and hailstorms to the CM on Tuesday, on the basis of which, the latter released a compensation of Rs 23 crores for farmers in the nine districts."
Relief Commissioner GS Naveen said that the highest compensation of Rs 5 crore was sanctioned for Jalaun whereas Lalitpur, Mahoba, and Saharanpur have received approval for Rs 3 crores each. Likewise, an amount of Rs 2 crore each has been sanctioned for Banda, Basti, Jhansi and Shamli and Rs 1 crore for Chitrakoot.
It may be noted that the compensation is primarily given to farmers whose crops are damaged by more than 33 percent due to floods, hailstorms and unseasonal rainfall.
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