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Union Minister B.L. Verma has claimed that farmers person "lost faith" successful the AAP authorities successful Punjab and privation compensation for damages caused by the caller floods to beryllium deposited into their accounts.
Mr. Verma, who was visiting flood-hit areas successful Gurdaspur district, told reporters connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, portion visiting flood-hit Punjab, had announced a ₹1,600 crore bundle successful summation to the ₹12,000 crore already successful the State's kitty.
On the Punjab Government's request that the Centre merchandise the package, Mr. Verma said, "The State Government request not worry... they volition not beryllium fixed (the money). We volition springiness it to farmers."
He said Mr. Modi had asked officials acrophobic to transportation retired an appraisal of damages successful a transparent manner. After the completion of the assessment, the Modi authorities volition wage the compensation, Mr. Verma asserted.
The Minister, however, claimed that the farmers person "lost faith" successful the State Government, and they are saying that they bash not privation the funds to beryllium fixed to it.
"They (farmers) privation the wealth to beryllium transferred into their accounts," said the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The Punjab Government has been claiming that the Centre has not yet released immoderate wealth retired of the ₹1,600 crore alleviation bundle announced by the PM.
On the archetypal time of the peculiar league of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha connected Friday (September 26), Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema had launched a scathing onslaught against the Union Government, alleging that not adjacent a azygous penny was released retired of the alleviation package.
Minister Cheema had said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann wrote to the premier curate successful precocious August, seeking the merchandise of ₹60,000 crore successful "outstanding" funds.
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The AAP Government had moved a solution successful the House to condemn the "lack of effect and the failure" of the BJP-led Centre to authorisation a peculiar fiscal bundle for the flood-hit Punjab.
The solution besides condemned the Prime Minister's Office for "not responding" to the Punjab CM's repeated petition for a meeting, thereby "insulting" the radical of the state, and preventing the State from making a due and broad practice of the afloat standard of the disaster.
The solution further said the State Government, with heavy regret, indispensable pass the House and the radical of Punjab that adjacent a portion of the meagre announced bundle of ₹1,600 crore has not yet been transferred to the State treasury.
The solution besides stated that it expresses profound dismay astatine the announcement of a token alleviation bundle of ₹1,600 crore, which is simply a cruel mockery of the state's genuine request of implicit ₹20,000 crore for a afloat recovery.
Punjab faced 1 of its worst flood disasters successful decades, chiefly owed to the swollen Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi rivers, on with seasonal rivulets resulting from dense rainfall successful their catchment areas successful Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Furthermore, dense rains successful Punjab exacerbated the flooding situation.
Crops implicit 5 lakh acres were damaged successful the caller floods.
