Relief fund of an amount of Rs 3 crore will return back from Bargarh district alone. Due to various types of natural disaster in the khariff marketing season of the year 2013-2014, special calamity assistance of Rs 2679183074 was sanctioned to Odisha. The ten districts of Western Odisha were allotted Rs 1443932392.
In 2013-14, Rs 2585903561 was distributed to farmers out of the total special calamity assistance amount of Rs. 2679183074 of the state. But still a huge amount of Rs 26840497 is still pending to distribute. In this scheme, about 5 lakh 535 farmers got benefited.
According to information the undistributed 4 crore 16 lakh 24 thousands 139 rupees will return be back out of the total amount 1443932392 rupees allocated to western Odisha.
From the ten districts of western Odisha, Bargarh alone will return around 3 crore rupees.
According to the information, due to natural disaster in the khariff marketing time of year 2013-14 crops got damaged. For the relief work of the same an amount of Rs 440809531 was allotted to Bargarh district. An amount of Rs 400809531 has been distributed to 60763 farmers. Apart from this more farmers have been identified to distribute another 1 crore rupees. Now the remaining 3 crore rupees will return back.
Apart from Bargarh, Balangir district will return 61 lakh 19 thousand 467, Boudh will return 35 thousand 719 rupees, Deogarh will return 1 lakh 25 thousand 850 rupees, from Kalahandi 50 lakh rupees, from Sambalpur 95 thousand 595 rupees, Sonepur will return 4197 rupees and Sundergarh will return 2 lakh 43 thousand 329 rupees. The total amount will be 4 crore 16 lakh 24 thousand and 139 rupees.
When the district collector of Bargarh, Anjan Kumar Manik was contaxcted regarding this, he says, while identifying the affected farmers, some could not give their complete information. Many farmers are not having bank accounts. That’s why we are facing problem in distributing the special calamity assistance. Still we have managed to distribute the relief to 60763 farmers.