Crop damage due to natural calamities is a common phenomenon and this year too, farmers have to bear the brunt of unseasonal rain and hailstorms.It is for the first time in the history of Punjab that the state government has quickly initiated the process of girdawari to disburse the compensation to the affected farmers at the earliest.
This pro-farmers move of the government has significantly surprise the people as well as the farmers who have suffered from this natural calamity.Today, when Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann distributed cheques of compensation amount to the farmers during a state-level function held at Abohar, the people after receiving the cheques, thanked the Punjab government and said that they have never imagined that the Government would come to their aid so soon.
Along with incessant rain, tornadoes had wreaked havoc the Village Bakainwala in Fazilka district recently and destroyed crops and kinnow orchards and many houses across the district. When Vinod Kumar of this village was given a cheque of Rs. 120,000 by the Chief Minister Of Punjab Mr. Bhagwant Mann, he could not control his feelings.
He overwhelmed with emotions and wholeheartedly thanked the Punjab government for the unprecedented incident of getting compensation.He said that following the directions of the Punjab Government, the District Administration Fazilka, have reconstructed their houses, which got destroyed and today the compensation amount has also been received.Likewise, village sarpanch Harjinder Singh said that the villagers were extremely elated to receive the notification of the compensation company being credited into their bank accounts by the Punjab government.
He said that the beneficiary farmers received the compensation money without any hassle and making a beeline to different government offices.Another beneficiary Surjit Kaur, who has been handed over a cheque of Rs 1, 20,000 by the government today after her house was damaged, said that not only has the compensation been received in 19 days, but after the girdawari in the village, the lists of affected farmers were put up at common places, to ensure a transparent process of disbursing compensation and all villages can access the information.
Similarly, another beneficiary Jagdish Kumar said that this time it has happened for the first time that the work of Girdawari has been done in a completely transparent manner and no affected farmer has been left out by the Patwari.