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Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu connected Thursday said successful the Legislative Council that portion the erstwhile YSRCP authorities reduced harvest compensation for farmers from ₹17,000 to ₹12,000 per hectare, the TDP-led conjugation authorities accrued it to ₹25,000 per hectare for farmers who suffered losses successful the Budameru floods.
The Minister was responding to an allegation made by YSR Congress Party MLC M. Arun Kumar that farmers who suffered harvest losses owed to earthy calamities had not received compensation and that they had incurred dense losses due to the fact that the authorities failed to wage harvest security premia.
Mr. Atchannaidu besides accused the erstwhile authorities of not paying the State’s stock for 3 years nether the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and said the NDA authorities had reintroduced the scheme.
On the contented of losses to java plantations in Araku Valley, the Minister said the authorities had taken peculiar measures to power the dispersed of java berry disease. Due to timely monitoring and preventive measures, lone 60.8 hectares of plantations were affected and a compensation of ₹7.23 lakh was paid to 81 farmers who suffered losses successful 152 acres, helium informed.
Rythu Seva Kendras
Replying to a question connected the operation of Rythu Seva Kendras, Minister for Civil Supplies, Food and Consumer Affairs Nadendla Manohar said that retired of 10,216 centres planned crossed the State, 5,346 had been completed and handed implicit to the Agriculture Department.
He said different 31 centres would beryllium completed soon, portion 2,057 centres were astatine assorted stages of construction. Mr. Manohar said the erstwhile authorities had not allocated capable funds for operation of the centres, which resulted successful the task outgo escalation from ₹282 crore to ₹502 crore.
Employment generation
Replying to questions connected employment generation, Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs M. Ramprasad Reddy said the TDP-led conjugation had created 6,28,347 jobs successful the State and provided 30,607 authorities jobs aft it came to power.
The Minister said granting of concern presumption to the tourism assemblage attracted respective projects and reiterated that the government’s extremity was to make 20 lakh jobs successful the State.
The Council approved 2 Bills earlier passed by the Legislative Assembly — the Andhra Pradesh Fire Services (Amendment) Bill-2026 and the Andhra Pradesh Jan Vishwas (Amendment) Bill-2006.
TTD Chairman issue
The opening of the Council league was thing but creaseless with the YSRCP members resorting to a protestation aft the Chairman rejected an adjournment question moved by MLCs Thumati Madhava Rao, Varudu Kalyani and Bharat, demanding the removal of the TTD Board Chairman implicit alleged irregularities.
The YSRCP members raised slogans astatine the podium insisting that the contented beryllium discussed successful the House. Despite the protest, the Chairman continued with the Question Hour and aboriginal adjourned the House concisely arsenic the agitation continued.
