Farmers from Chorao await compensation

Bicholim: Farmers affected due to the sudden breaching of the ‘katar khazan’ and ‘kawa khazan’ bandharas in Chorao in April are awaiting compensation from the state administration.

Around 300 farmers from katar khazan and 150 farmers from kawa khazan had suffered losses after saline water entered their farms on April 2.

The farmers had cultivated chillies, bananas and other vegetables in the fields situated adjacent to these bandharas.

Farmers Dasharath Mapari, Sanjay Candolkar, Sanjay Kalangutkar, Sagun Dalvi, Ashok Candolkar, Sanjay Kandolkar, Vishwajit Mandrekar, Prakash Kaskar, Kishore Amonkar, Swapnesh Amonkar and others had raised the demand for compensation.

Following the incident, local MLA

Pravin Zantye

had assured to resolve the problem of the farmers with the assistance of chief minister Pramod Sawant.

However, the farmers said that they have not been compensated till date.