KCR is perpetuated in every farmer’s welfare’s measure: Ministers
Khamamm: In yet another artistic display, farmers created a massive 1800 square feet portrait of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao with vegetables at Burhanpuram Vegetable Market here on Monday.
Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar along with Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy took part in Rythu Bandhu celebrations at the market, where farmers used 50 quintals of nine varieties of vegetable to arrange the portrait.
Addressing gatherings in Khammam and at Sathupally, the ministers said the mark of Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao was visible in every pro-farmer measure introduced in Telangana.
Successive Congress governments in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh had great trouble in supplying free power for irrigation for just seven to nine hours a day. Its leaders like K Jana Reddy said supplying 24-hour power to agriculture needs was impossible. The leaders also doubted Rythu Bandhu implementation, they said.
But Chandrashekhar has made it possible by ensuring 24-hour free electricity to irrigation. The government was also successful in implementing Rythu Bandhu wherein investment support was offered twice in a year even during the Covid crisis, Ajay Kumar noted.
Telangana farmers who faced a great deal of ordeals in the past because of poor supply of electricity and water for irrigation and in purchasing seeds and fertilisers were now able to produce three crore tonnes of paddy in a year, the minister added.
Niranjan Reddy stated that Telangana was the only State in the country that spends Rs 60,000 crore on agriculture and allied fields. An amount of Rs 50, 600 crore was credited into the accounts of farmers under Rythu Bandhu so far.
The Centre has backtracked on its three black Farm Laws, against which the entire farming community outraged, due to Assembly elections in five States. There was no guarantee that the BJP government at the Centre would again bring back those Farm Laws, he suspected.
The Modi government diluted the Essential Commodities Act allowing corporate companies to stock pulses, oil seeds and other food grains. Rythu Bandhu was not implemented in Modi’s own State Gujarat. But Chandrashekhar Rao introduced it without anyone’s demand, he added.
MP Nama Nageswara Rao said the Chief Minister has been coming up with innovative schemes for the welfare of the farmers in the State unlike any other Chief Minister in the country. Such schemes enabled farming activity to be a profitable avocation for the farmers.
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