Maharashtra Govt. “Drought
Relief Package” is ignoring Agrarian crisis
Nagpur
-25th August, 2012
Maharashtra
having declared Drought in 123 Talukas
by changing Norms and selecting blocks
as per will and wish of
Cong-NCP Ministers now Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan yesterday petitioned top Union Ministers,
including Sharad Pawar and P Chidambaram for immediate financial assistance to mitigate
the impact of the natural calamity is meeting today Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Planning commission officials to demand a "special package"
to alleviate the state's drought crisis. He wants Singh to open new funding
windows for drought mitigation measures not covered under the existing National
Drought Response Fund (NDRF) is being termed as political move by cotton ,soya
and paddy growers farmers alleging that
as it happened in past relief packages are always contractor and politician
driven will be siphoned out and main agrarian crisis which is in more than 90
lakh hector will be completely ignored , Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti chief
Kishore Tiwari informed today.
‘the agrarian crisis in
Maharashtra this year has very typical due untimely monsoon rain and quantum of
which has damaged more than 2 million hector
standing crop of cotton ,soya
and paddy area of vidarbha, Marathawada,Kokan and other khandesh-North Maharashtra even rain fall is below 50% in some of area
crop condition is good where as larger part central India where monsoon rain is
above average crop is condition too poor to asses but ‘drought relief packages
and talukas included’ have ignored these crisis which will agrrivate situation
hence central team should asses the
ground reality and then give financial node to political drought relief package of
Maharashtra Govt.’Tiwari added.
It is reported that Maharashtra
CM Chavan decided to approach PM after a Sharad Pawar-led group of the Union
cabinet expressed inability to take a call on the demand. The state government
has sought Rs 2,275 crore in aid for completion of 105 irrigation projects-35
in Vidharbha, 40 in Marathwada, and 30 in the rest of Maharashtra-in
drought-prone areas by July 2013. It also wants Rs 580 crore for construction
of cement check dams, which is also not covered under NDRF. A section of the
political leadership, however, believes that the demand is an attempt to secure
more aid for the controversy-ridden irrigation sector hence there is opposition
from majority of Maharashtra farmers but same
time they welcome central Govt. to consider revision in norms for funding aid
to fodder depots and renovation to regional water supply scheme but till core issues of Credit,Crop, Ground Water Crisis and Minimum Support Price for Maharashtra main cash crop like cotton
,soya and sugarcane which are basic
cause of on going farmer suicides and prevailing agrarian crisis are even
listed which is much more irritating ,we
can not allow politician to siphon out thousands crore rupees in the name of
relief packages hence we demand hike in MSP and direct subsidies to dry land farmers
to decease cost of cultivation hence we are
against CM designed special relief package ,Tiwari said
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