Ramadoss said that it is a matter of concern that the government has announced that only 40,000 acres will be compensated, while 2 lakh acres of kuruvai crops are being burnt due to failure to get proper Cauvery water from Karnataka. As the crops are drying up without water, Bamaka founder Ramadoss has insisted on compensation of Rs 40,000 per acre. In a statement issued by him in this regard, tamil Nadu chief minister M.K.Stalin has announced that compensation of Rs.5,400 per acre will be given to about 40,000 acres of small paddy crops that have withered due to lack of water in the Cauvery irrigation districts.  More than 5.20 lakh acres of Kuruva has been planted in tamil Nadu this year, more than previous years. This was due to the release of water on june 12 for the third year in a row and the announcement that the southwest monsoon, which supplies water to the Cauvery catchment area, would be normal.

But due to insufficient rainfall in the catchment areas and karnataka government's refusal to share the available water, even 40 tmc of the 127.05 tmc of water to be supplied to tamil Nadu has not reached the mettur dam in the current crop year. Due to insufficient release of water in Cauvery for the last one and a half months, the crops in the Cauvery irrigation districts have started to wither. A total of 200,000 acres of short-lived crops have been harvested in the past, including pre-planted crops and crops irrigated with groundwater.

Remaining three and a half lakh acres of crops are withering. Even in them, about one and a half lakh acres of crops can be saved with some damage. At the same time, the water level of mettur dam has dropped to 33 feet as of this morning and the water storage has decreased to 9 TMC. In such an environment, 2 lakh acres of unharvested crops in Cauvery irrigated districts cannot be saved. In that case, it is not known how the government calculated that only 40 thousand acres are affected.

Apart from that, the announcement that only Rs.5400 per acre compensation will be given for damaged crops is an attack on the farmers. Rs. 40,000 is morally obligated to the tamil Nadu government in two ways. When the tamil Nadu government is responsible for providing compensation for the affected crops, in what way is it fair to provide compensation of only Rs.5400 per acre for only 40,000 acres? This amount is not even sufficient to cover the cost of planting. Studies show that it costs up to Rs 25,000 to cultivate rice in an acre. When paddy fields were destroyed by NLC in Cuddalore district, the madras high court ordered compensation of Rs 40,000 per acre for the crops. Considering them, Ramdas has insisted that the government should provide compensation at the rate of Rs. 40,000