Once a bee farming queen, Deol pleads for relief from CM

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Uggi (Jalandhar), May 25

Having scripted a huge success by having received the best agriculturist award from the state and made her name amongst the leading beekeepers of the state till about a decade ago, Sangeeta Deol (65) is completely distraught these days.

The situation has reached to such a passé that the Dhanal village-based woman, who was popularly called as the bee farming queen and made headlines in farming journals of international repute, had to come to the CM’s Sangat Darshan and seek help from him over the mounting debt on her and also get a motor connection sanctioned for her farm, the application for which was lying pending for four years now.

Deol, who was already suffering from polio in one leg, is not able to even limp now as her other leg too has gone weak. Deol pleaded, “I had taken loans from the banks to take forward my business. But I could not work as I got crippled by both legs. In the meantime, the interests on the loans increased four times. Now, I am unable to repay these. Further, both my sons have gone into depression because of these loans.”

Dissatisfied with the response of the CM, she even managed to reach CM’s lunch venue at the house of a party leader in the village to speak to him personally again.