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‘Provide compensation of Rs. 10,000 per hectare to farmers who suffered losses' State urged to announce special package to repair roads and bridges damaged by rain GULBARGA: The Gulbarga Zilla Panchayat has demanded that the State Government waive off the crop loans availed by farmers in Gulbarga district, in view of the heavy losses they suffered due to heavy rains this year. The standing crops in the kharif season were destroyed due to the rains in July, August and September. In a unanimous resolution passed in the general body meeting of the zilla panchayat here on Saturday, the members said that farmers in the district were in distress and were incapable of repaying loans taken from cooperative and nationalised banks. In another resolution, the panchayat demanded that the State Government provide compensation of Rs. 10,000 per hectare to farmers who had lost their standing crops. The resolution also wanted the State Government to initiate a scientific survey throughout the district to ascertain the accurate crop-wise losses suffered by the farmers. The State Government was also urged to announce a special package for repairing badly damaged roads in rural areas and reconstructing bridges and drains that were washed away in the floods in different parts of the district. The meeting also decided that a delegation would meet Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa during his visit to Gulbarga city on October 4 to chair a Cabinet meeting and submit a detailed memorandum on the losses suffered by the farmers and seek his personal intervention to provide relief to them. The meeting also took serious note of the refusal of Deputy Commissioner R. Vishal to be present in the meeting to present the real picture of the damage to crops and public and private property and provide details of the compensation paid so far to those affected. President Srinivas Poojary had talked to Dr. Vishal over the phone and asked him to be present in the meeting. Dr. Vishal refused to come to the meeting on grounds that he was busy with the preparations for the October 4 Cabinet meeting. The Deputy Commissioner has submitted two reports to the Government on the rain damage already, sources said. However, Gurushant Pattedar, a member, demanded that a resolution be passed recommending that the Government recall the Deputy Commissioner for refusing to attend the zilla panchayat meeting. On the rain damage, Allamprabhu Patil and Subash Rathod said that more than 50 per cent of the sown area had been damaged fully and the State Government should assist farmers for sowing of the rabi crop.
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