XI LOK SABHA DEBATES,   Session IV (Budget) 

Thursday , May 8, 1997 / Vaisakha  18 1919 (Saka)



Type of Debate: SPECIAL MENTION			

Title: Request to send a team immediately to survey the losses and on to give 
relief to the farmers affected with floods.

TEXT :
 SHRI SAT MAHAJAN (KANGRA): Mr. Chairman, Sir,  in  Himachal  Pradesh,  we  are
having some floods. We are having incessant rains and the entire crop has been
damaged.  The  fruits have been perished. There are no seed takers for potato.
We are in a great agony and anguish. The whole of Himachal Pradesh is  reeling
under  flood. Eighty-five per cent of the Himachal Pradesh region is dependent
on  horticulture  and  agriculture.  (Interruptions)  Please  let  me   speak.
Eighty-Five per cent of the agriculturists are in problem.




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	My  request  to  the  Central  Government through you is that from the
Ministry of Agriculture a team should be despatched immediately to survey  the
losses  and  immediate steps should be taken to give relief to the farmers. We
are in a great trouble. We are a poor State and we are totally in anguish  and
in  agony.  Our  farmers'  backbone  has been broken. Sir, we request you that
immediate steps should be taken.





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