Dalal: Govt delaying crop-loss assessment, release of relief

Charging the state BJP government of taking an anti-farmer stance, former Haryana minister Karan Singh Dalal has claimed that a large number of farmers who had been victim of loss or damage caused by rain and hailstorms in the recent past had been awaiting the official assessment of the losses suffered.

In a statement here today, Dalal said while the farmers were being made to run from pillar to post in name of registration of their complaints online, he said the authorities had failed to ensure the registration of the grievances so far.

The present stance of the government and delay in assessment would result in denying the compensation to the farmers, he claimed.

He said while girdawari (revenue department survey) should have been concluded by now, farmers had been approaching the district administration for help as they have been unable to lodge their complaints on the official portal of the state government due to various reasons.

Describing the e-portal a major hurdle, he said the government should do away with a system that had become a cause of harassment to crop growers.

The compensation should be released on the basis of the report of the Patwaris of respective areas, he demanded. Raising the issue of charging of toll tax from the residents at the interchange set up near Pelak village on the KMP Expressway, he said that commuters were being made to pay a huge amount for using the passage of 3 km, which was illegal.

He said the Union Minister for Transport had assured that residents in 20 km vicinity would not be charged at the toll plazas as the majority of them are farmers and come from poor financial backgrounds.