CM promises relief on day-to-day basis
The Hindu
‘It will be credited to farmers’ accounts’
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said compensation for crop loss will be credited to accounts of farmers on a day-to-day basis after the estimation of the loss is uploaded in the government’s app.
Speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting, he said the Finance Department Secretary had asked the Revenue Department Secretary to credit compensation to farmers’ accounts regularly.
The Deputy Commissioners of districts too had been informed to provide details of the necessity of funds required for undertaking relief works in their respective districts. Mr. Bommai said the State had witnessed widespread loss of crops owing to heavy rains and floods. Crops such as paddy, ragi, groundnut, jowar, and vegetables had been destroyed during the monsoon as well in the recent rains, he said.
Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”