Chief ministerUddhav Thackeray assured the delegation led bySwabhimani Shetkari SanghtanaleaderRaju Shettithat a gazette notifyingcompensationto thefarmersas per the relief extended after the 2019 floods will soon be issued.
After the five-day protest by villagers along the Panchaganga river concluded on Sunday at Narsinhawadi, Thackeray invited Shetti for discussions.
The discussion was held at theCMs office for over an hour.
Shetti demanded that the farmers affected by floods in Panchaganga and Krishna rivers in July should be compensated as per the 2019 policy. Thackeray had earlier made an oral announcement that the compensation will be granted as per 2019 policy, but there was no official gazette notification issued regarding the same.
Shetti also demanded that the funds available with district collector to implementMahatma GandhiNational Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee Act (MNREGA) should be utilised for employing the daily wage workers to remove the damaged crops from the fields. For farmers to remove the damaged crops and level the fields around Rs 10,000 per acre will be required which is not available with them. In Kolhapur, Sangli, the funds forMNREGAremains unutilised, said Shetti.