Situation became worse due to lack of cleaning of drains in

cities and digging of drains in rural areas, ex-MP held talks with

administrative officials

Prayagraj, 22 Aug (HS): Former MP Kunwar Reoti Raman Singh

spoke to the administrative officials and said that the crops which were ruined

due to drowning in water due to non-digging of drains should be surveyed and

proper compensation should be given to the affected farmers. He told the Meja

SDM that due to non-digging of drains and sewers in Meja, Manda, water

accumulated in the farmers' fields for many days and the crops were ruined,

hence an immediate survey should be conducted and the farmers should be given

compensation from the government. He has also told the officials of Koraon,

Karchana Bara in the same manner.

MP representative Vinay Kushwaha said that when former

minister Kunwar Revati Raman Singh was the irrigation minister, he had got

drains and sewers dug on a large scale during his tenure, but today the

situation is different. He said that fertilizers are not available, whatever

they get after standing in line for hours, the farmers use their hard work and

capital to prepare the crop, but due to the negligence of the government

machinery, rainwater remains filled in the fields and the crops rot. If the

drains and sewers had been dug in time, the hard work and capital of the

farmers would not have gone waste. He said that if the city drains had been

cleaned before the onset of the monsoons, there would not have been such a

terrible situation of waterlogging today.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi