Congress leader Anand Singh Dangi on Sunday morning reached Rohtak and inspected the damage to the crops caused by the fresh spell of hailstorm that lashed the district on Saturday evening. Dangi asked government should provide adequate compensation of 65 thousand within 24 hours for bailing
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has asked the MLAs and officers to enhance their field visits for expediting the process of Girdawari and redress the problems of farmers facing crop loss.
Hailstorm and precipitation are likely to occur over and adjoining areas of NCR (Gurugram) during the next one hour, said Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) in New Delhi on Saturday evening.
CM gave instructions to assess the loss of crops and distribute compensation to the farmers without delay. He also instructed the relief commissioner to inform the farmers about the weather forecast and make proper use of the early warning system.
According to IMD, the weather will remain bad till today and tomorrow and there are chances of heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and hailstorms.
"We all know due to the untimely rain and hailstorm farmers have suffered huge losses. The day when CM Chouhan was playing Holi, the farmers were mourning for their loss," said Choudhary.
Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday issued directions to take measures to extend financial assistance to the farmers for the crops damaged due to untimely rains and hailstorms.
KCR announced a compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre for farmers who lost their crops due to recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms, informed the government.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao announced compensation of Rs 10,000 per acre to farmers for loss of crops due to recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms in some districts.
According to the Met office, the weather will be fine for today (Thursday) and Friday. But after the western disturbance gets active from March 24 in Northern India, the weather of the state will witness the changes.
Widespread rainfall is expected in the next three days across the state, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Head (Himachal) Surinder Paul said on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said, "Today, I am going to take stock of two hailstorm-affected districts that are Vidisha and Sagar. After seeing the condition of the crops of the farmers at both those places, I will talk to the farmers of the entire state."