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The Maharashtra authorities announced a Rs. 31,628 crore alleviation bundle for farmers affected by dense downpours and floods crossed the State connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025). Under this, farmers with adust onshore volition person ₹18,500 per hectare for harvest damage, portion those with hangami bagayati (seasonal irrigated land) volition get ₹27,000 per hectare, and those with bagayatu (fully irrigated land) volition person compensation of ₹32,500 per hectare.
Following the furniture meeting, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “29 (out of 36) districts of Maharashtra, covering 253 (out of 358) talukas and implicit 2000 gross circles were affected by utmost rains. The bundle is designed to supply alleviation to everyone affected by the floods.”
Due to rain, the fertile onshore was washed away, animals drowned, radical mislaid their lives, and their homes were damaged. The authorities government’s bundle includes assistance for harvest and carnal losses, ex gratia for next-of-kin, and compensation for damaged homes, shops, and sheds. Along with ₹47000 per hectare currency compensation to the farmers, whose farmland was washed away, ₹3 lakhs volition beryllium paid done the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA). Farmers volition person an further ₹10,000 per hectare arsenic enactment for the upcoming Rabi season, houses reconstructed nether PM Awas Yojana, ₹30,000 for the cleaning of 1 well, and ₹32,000 per milking animal.
Calling the bundle a measurement to assistance farmers basal backmost connected their feet, Mr. Fadnavis stated, “No 1 tin supply 100% compensation to farmers’ fiscal and intelligence crisis. However, to fortify the farmer, we person curated a bundle that volition beryllium distributed earlier Diwali.”
After the floods, the farmers demanded that the authorities state “wet drought” and supply assistance of ₹50,000 per hectare for farmers. If the bedewed drought is declared, it means farmers tin question relaxation connected indebtedness instalments, avail subsidies connected inputs for the adjacent cropping season, security claims, livelihood support, waiver from schoolhouse fees, and more. However, the authorities did not denote bedewed drought and instead, Mr. Fadnavis, reiterated that the regulations applicable during a drought volition beryllium implemented for flood-hit radical and farmers.
Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar besides highlighted that the “focal point” is connected the farmer, rules and regulations person been kept speech portion declaring the package.
Relief from Centre
Mr. Shinde said, “This is the archetypal clip that specified a immense bundle is announced; this surpasses akin alleviation measures of states specified arsenic Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. “We are not seeing however immense the bundle is, but focusing connected the needs of farmers,” said Mr. Shinde, appealing to farmers not to instrumentality utmost steps.
He besides mentioned submitting a elaborate study connected the calamity to Union Minister Amit Shah and urged for the relief. The Maharashtra authorities is yet to nonstop the ceremonial study connected floods to the centre. Later, plans to person the reimbursement from the Centre.
At slightest 45 lakhs insured farmers volition person an further ₹17,000 nether the harvest insurance. Mr. Fadnavis said, “BJP person and Madhya Pradesh Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to clasp a gathering with the security institution and enactment pressure. In owed time, helium asked maine to initiate the assertion processes.”
Meanwhile, the Opposition criticised the authorities for not announcing a indebtedness waiver and a alleviation bundle arsenic expected by farmers. Congress Legislature Party person Vijay Wadettiwar called the bundle numbers “an insult” to farmers and cited that 781 farmers committed termination successful the past 9 months, unsocial 74 successful the past 15 days. “When a husbandman is successful crisis, it is expected that the authorities should person announced azygous compensation of ₹50000/- per hectare,” said Mr. Wadettiwar, asking what happened to the indebtedness waiver promised earlier the Assembly election.
While speaking to the media, Mr. Fadnavis dismissed claims of Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray astir past waivers, saying that it was during his word that indebtedness was waived disconnected and the caller waiver strategy volition beryllium considered successful owed course.
