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THE NAGPUR bench of the Bombay High Court has taken strong exception to the slow pace of implementation of the PM's relief packages to distressed farmers and asked the state authorities to provide a list of beneficiaries by August 16.
THE NAGPUR bench of the Bombay High Court has taken strong exception to the slow pace of implementation of the PM's relief packages to distressed farmers and asked the state authorities to provide a list of beneficiaries by August 16.
Responding to a PIL filed by the Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti, the court also pulled up the government for failing to prevent farmers' suicide in the region.
Petitioner Kishore Tiwari informed the court that the government had failed to implement its earlier order on ensuring relief measures to farmers so that such tragedies did not occur again.
Moreover, he pointed out, a list of beneficiaries on the state sponsored website is also missing.
Tiwari added that the government has not updated data on relief measures on its website. He provided a list of the number of suicides ― 716 ―in the current kharif season so far.
The list includes 108 farmers, who had ended their lives after the prime minister visited the region and announced a package of Rs 3,750-crore to bail them out. The state counsel, however, said it has initiated measures to prevent farmer suicides.
The government also said it would provide the list of beneficiaries in the next hearing. It has filed an affidavit before the court in this regard.
Earlier, a division bench of the Bombay High Court here pulled up a dozen senior government officials for their "casual" approach on the issue and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 as cost of 12 respondents in the petition.
Later the state bureaucrats, including the chief secretary, made unconditional apologies before the court and requested to recall its order. While recalling the order, however, the court made it clear that "this does not mean a clean chit to them."
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