Maharashtra government has issued show cause notices to ten government employees including local tehsildar and agriculture officers for humiliating farmers while assessing crop damage to award compensation. The officers in question had handed slates to hailstorm affected farmers, akin to history sheeters, during their field visits to assess compensation to crops damaged in a hailstorm.
Maharashtra government has issued show cause notices to ten government employees including local tehsildar and agriculture officers for humiliating farmers while assessing crop damage to award compensation. The officers in question had handed slates to hailstorm affected farmers, akin to history sheeters, during their field visits to assess compensation to crops damaged in a hailstorm.
DNA had on February 21st highlighted this following which the government issued orders to stall the humiliating method of assessment the following day. According to the Usmanabad district collector, in the inquiry report, it has been revealed that the government staffers from Umarga tehsil that includes tehsildar, local revenue officer, and agriculture officers were at fault.
“We had neither issued any notifications nor asked them to do so. We have taken cognizance of an incident and issued show cause notice to all these ten guilty employees. As per natural justice, they have to explain or give their clarifications. After that we will take the actions,” said RV Game, collector of Usmanabad.
In the recent hailstorm, 2.90 lakh hectares of rabbi crops -- wheat, pulses, an orchid of grapes, mango and orange were badly damaged. The total damage is worth over Rs 3000 crore in Marathwada and Vidharbha.
Game said that this incident was restricted to one tehsil in Usmanabad district only. “We are not protecting anyone but taking the actions as per the prescribed procedure. I have already given the order to take actions immediately,” said agriculture minister Pandurang Phundkar.
One of the government officials from Usmanabad told DNA that these ten officers were over-enthusiastic and very casual while doing the work. “Nowadays, everything is done online so we have been also asked regularly by the government to upload the various works photographs as a digital record. We have removed these objectional pictures,” he said requested anonymity.
Ashok Chavan, president of Maharashtra Congress said that it is better late than never. “It also shows that the BJP government has lost control over its own administration. Each one is taking his own order and decisions and working as per their whims and fancy,” Chavan said.
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