Mohali, September 15
Members of the Punjab Border Area Kissan Welfare Society today staged a protest against the state government for delaying Rs 10,000-per acre compensation to the farmers whose crops were destroyed by stray animals across the India-Pakistan border.
Society leader Raghubir Singh Baghala said farmers of six districts, Pathankot, Batala, Fazilka, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran, have not been paid compensation by the state government since 2017. He alleged that the Centre had sanctioned Rs5,000 per acre for farmers but the state government had not contributed its Rs5,000 per acre share and withheld the entire amount due to them. — TNS
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