Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced on Thursday a Rs 10,000 per acre relief and rehabilitation assistance for crops damaged by recent unseasonal rainfall.
The State government will issue a total of Rs 228.25 crore on Thursday evening, and district administrations will distribute financial aid as soon as possible.
On Thursday, the chief minister told reporters in Ravinutala village, Bonakal mandal, Khammam district, that financial assistance will be distributed equally to all crops. He stated that standing crops on approximately 2.28 lakh acres in the state were destroyed, with maize affecting 1.29 lakh acres. He said that the crop loss report will not be provided to the Government as a protest for its previous refusal to provide crop loss assistance to Telangana.
“We don’t want to rely on the Centre since it takes at least six months to reply. The Centre has never responded positively to farmers who suffered as a result of natural disasters. On behalf of the State government, we would provide Rs 228 crore in relief and rehabilitation assistance to farmers,” KCR stated.
Chief Secretary A Santhi Kumari has been directed to issue the necessary directives in this regard.
The Chief Minister stated that steps would be taken to ensure that tenant farmers received the government’s financial assistance by amending the rules as needed. He went on to say that the decision not to seek aid from the central government was made because the Modi administration was known for its “anti-farmer” policies, and previous petitions from the state had fallen on deaf ears.
KCR was accompanied during his aerial inspection of the areas by agriculture minister S Niranjan Reddy, transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, Rythu Bandhu Samithi chairman MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, chief secretary A Santhi Kumari, and MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra.
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Warangal district collector VP Gautham and district agriculture officials bride the minister about the extent of the loss caused by the rains and said, “as many as 10,324 acres of cultivation land was damaged affecting the livelihood of 7092 farmers in Bonakal Mandal alone.”
‘In addition to the land damage, crops on 31,027 acres were damaged, affecting 22, 000 farmers,’ the district collector explained.
Following the tour, KCR planned to visit various villages in the Mahabubabad and Karimnagar districts to assess crop damage.
BRS district president MLC Tata Madhusudan, MLAs S Venkata Veeraiah, L Ramulu Naik and K Upender Reddy, ZP chairman L Kamal Raju and others were present.
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