After several protests and demands by famers and farmers’ organisations, officials of Gulbarga Electricity Company (GESCOM) in Yadgir have provided uninterrupted power to farm pump sets.
The district is reeling under drought as out of six taluks of its two have been declared severely drought-hit and the remaining four taluks have been declared as moderately drought-hit.
The State government and district administration has been prepared to conduct surveys of crop losses owing to drought. But, it failed to provide uninterrupted power supply to farm pump sets through which majority of farmers were drawing water from two major rivers like Krishna and Bhima and other water resources such as lakes and streams.
