Bharatiya Kisan Sangh clarifies
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 05 2016 :
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Manipur today said that
the statement of MLA Oinam Assembly Constituency I Ibohalbi in
the just concluded State Assembly Session that the State Horticul-
ture Department had collected Rs 50,000 from farmers for
implementing a scheme under the Ministry of Agro-Textiles through
Sasmira (an implementing agency) was false.
Addressing media persons at Manipur Press Club, president
of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, Manipur Pranta Nameirakpam
Indubushan stated that the comment of MLA I Ibohanbi was
false as the said scheme has no relation with the State Horti-
culture Department.
He added that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi
Sinchai Yojana is to provide irrigation facilities to farmers and
for Manipur, Bishnupur and Thoubal districts have been se-
lected.
But the implementation of the scheme should not be
given out on contract system, he said.
The State has a long history of failure in irrigation facilities.
Various works taken up under the 'Make in Manipur' initiative
by the Horticulture and Agriculture Department will be futile if
no water reaches the field, he added.
Large sum of money has been sanctioned to Command Area
Development Agency and Minor Irrigation Department by the
State Government through numerous schemes.
Faulty imple-
mentation has led to failure of many programme and schemes,
he alleged.
To curb such incidents in future, he added and said
that the concerned department and agency should work for the
benefit of farmers in the larger interest of the State.