FRIDAY, 02 NOVEMBER 2012 18:36
PNS | BALANGIR
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Farmers and Congress workers of the
Kantabanji Assembly constituency led by local MLA Santosh Singh Saluja on
Thursday marched through the town here and demonstrated before the district
Collectorate demanding total waiver of agriculture loan of farmers, payment
Rs36,000 as compensation to all farmers under the National Crop Insurance
Scheme and action against the banks employees for including the farmers
“arbitrarily” in the crop insurance scheme, and recovery of amount from them
and payment of compensation to farmers as per the national crop insurance
norms.
The agitation was also led by Balangir
district Congress president Bhagaban Bagarti, senior party leader Radhakanta
Panda, president of Balangir Lok Sabha Parliamentary Constituency Youth
Congress unit Akash Mishra, district Mahila Congress president Renuka Patra,
Pandab Kumar and Laxman Meher.
According to a memorandum submitted to the
Chief Minister through the district Collector, farmers of Tureikela had
deposited their insurance premium through the local Utkal Gramya Bank branch,
Allahabad Bank, Chatuanka, SBI, Kantabanji, Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and
Central Bank and Balangir District Central Cooperative Bank, Kantabanji, last
year. Similarly, farmers of Muribahal and Bongomunda blocks also deposited
their crop insurance money through banks.
While the Kantabanji and Tililagarh
branches of the District Central Cooperative Bank provided a compensation of
Rs36,000 for farmers towards hybrid paddy cultivation, nationalised banks are
giving compensation of Rs12, 000 to Rs17,000 for the same. Moreover, many banks
like the Bank of Baroda and the Central Bank of India did not deposit the
premium money with the insurance company, it was alleged in the memorandum.
Many farmers who had deposited their money
for crop insurance were covered under Weather Based Crop Insurance arbitrarily,
as a result of which they got a compensation of only Rs6,000 per acre. As a
result, the farmers suffered heavy loss. The farmers of the Kantabanji Assembly
segment were deprived of getting a total compensation of Rs100 crore, alleged
MLA Saluja.
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