Bargarh: Alleging the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) has gone haywire in this district and the farmers are hardly getting any benefits due to massive irregularities, farmers have given a memorandum to Collector Indramani Tripathy demanding a probe.
An NGO is in charge of implementing this scheme in the district. The farmers said crops were cultivated on farmlands in two clusters of 50 acres each. However, 15 of them are yet to get Rs 3,000 each towards their wages for the first year of implementation, the farmers alleged. They are yet to get any directions as to how to spend Rs 2,000 meant for earthworm pits.
They also alleged that they are to get Rs 6,000 for farming equipment worth the amount. The second year is about to end, but they are yet to get either the money or the equipment, the farmers complained.
Besides, to get maximum advantages from the scheme, the farmers are required to be given training on traditional farming in three phases. But these farmers have received such training only once.
“Out of the three phases of training, we have attended only one. And the institution in charge of imparting the training is misappropriating the money meant for it. The institution received Rs 60,000 from the department concerned for the first phase of training. Out of this, it spent only Rs 15,000 in the training,” the farmers alleged.
Surendra Pradhan, Nirmal Pradhan, Sahadev Pradhan, Aditya Pradhan, Congress Pradhan, Pitabasa Pradhan and some other farmers came to the Collector’s office to submit the memorandum.
PNN