Lucknow: Reviewing the situation of floods in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed the officials to compensate the farmers for the crop loss after assessment.
While addressing a meeting, on Tuesday, CM said, “The loss of agricultural crops due to floods and excessive rains should be assessed. Any farmer, whose crop is damaged, should be compensated as per rules at the earliest.”
People whose houses got damaged due to floods should be compensated according to the rules. The Revenue and Agriculture Departments should complete this work on priority in coordination with each other, he said.
The Government has directed the officials to take care of people in the state’s flood-affected districts and is currently providing people with ration and shelter immediately wherever people are in need.
To mitigate the impact of flood in affected villages, the Uttar Pradesh government instructed the teams of NDRF, SDRF and disaster management teams to work round the clock in an active mode. The government has also ordered to ensure that relief operations are not delayed in the areas affected by floods and excess rain.
UP Government Provides Water, Food Packets, Medicines
The Yogi government is providing an ample supply of drinking water, dry food packets, medicines, clothes, utensils and bedding among others while adhering to Covid protocols.
Ensuring that no eligible beneficiary is deprived of the assistance, the Uttar Pradesh Government machinery is on high alert and is taking all the required relief and rehabilitation measures in rain-affected areas.
