Muktsar – Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today demanded Rs 35,000 per acre as compensation for the farmers whose crops have been damaged in the recent heavy rains that caused floods.
The PCC president today visited several villages in Muktsar-Gidderbaha areas and met the affected farmers. He regretted that if proper measures had been taken well in advance and drains cleared in time, the damage might have been avoided.
Warring said, during the previous five years of the Congress rule, all precautions and preventive measures were taken in advance and with the result there were no floods and no damage to crops.
He hoped that the Punjab government will order special girdawari of the affected areas and the farmers are given timely compensation. He pointed out, the damage was quite extensive and no crops can be sown or planted again. To ensure that the farmers do not suffer, the government must provide adequate compensation in a time bound manner.
Warring said that there needed to be a comprehensive and long term solution to be found for the water logging in this belt which has badly hit the farmers. He said, during the Congress government a project had been proposed and conceived to find a solution to this perennial problem and hoped that the new government would implement and execute it on top priority.
