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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Feb, 2018
Three days after they suffered
huge crop losses following unseasonal rains and hailstorm in different
parts of Maharashtra, angry farmers on Tuesday staged road blocks on the
busy Nagpur-Amravati Highway demanding expeditious compensation.
Hundreds
of farmers shouting slogans converged on the highway near Kondhali and
other villages, stopped all vehicular movement and burnt tyres to vent
their ire at the delays in getting aid.
Bharatiya Janata Party
MLA from Katol in Nagpur Ashish Ranjeet Deshmukh also joined the
protestors when he had gone to survey the unseasonal rains and hailstorm
affected areas in Amravati on Tuesday.
The protesting farmers,
who disrupted traffic on the highway for a few hours, demanded that
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should personally inspect the damage to
crops in the natural calamity and make arrangements to disburse aid on
top priority.
On his part, Deshmukh urged the local
administration to immediately carry out preliminary assessment of the
losses suffered by the farming community to enable them get compensation
as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Congress President
Ashok Chavan, Nationalist Congress Party's Leader of Opposition
(Council) Dhananjay Munde and other senior leaders from both parties
visited several of the worst-hit areas on Tuesday and interacted with
the victims.
The rains and hailstones coupled with lightning
since Sunday morning have claimed the lives of four persons so far in
different parts of Maharashtra.
Agriculture Minister Pandurang
Fundkar on Monday said that in a total of 124,294 hectares, huge
quantity of standing crops including fruits, vegetables and cereals, was
virtually flattened due to rains and hailstones in 1,086 villages
spread across 11 districts of Vidarbha and Marathwada.
The
revenue and agriculture departments have already submitted a preliminary
report of the losses to the state government from the affected
districts -- Beed, Jalna, Parbhani, Jalgaon, Buldhana, Amravati, Akola,
Washim, Latur, Osmanabad and Hingoli.
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