Government urged to safeguard nearly 1,200 acres of farmland submerged in Kadapa district

The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham State Committee urged the authorities to instrumentality contiguous enactment to safeguard astir 1,200 acres of farmland submerged astatine Porumamilla mandal successful Kadapa district. State president V. Krishnaiah and State caput K. Prabhakara Reddy submitted a memorandum to Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu seeking urgent involution and alleviation for affected farmers.

According to the committee, farmland belonging to 10 villages — Tekuru, Tekurupeta, Tirangalapuram, Suru Siddipalle, Dasaripalle, Thimmareddypalle, Kavalakuntla, Tokalapalle, Errasala and Korrapatipalle — was inundated aft h2o from Brahma Sagar Reservoir entered Porumamilla tank. The overflow, reported successful precocious October, destroyed lasting crops specified arsenic paddy, maize, jowar and vegetables. Farmers who had invested betwixt ₹30,000 and ₹40,000 per acre mislaid their full seasonal income, pushing hundreds of tiny and marginal farmers into distress.

The Rythu Sangham leaders blamed the incidental connected alleged mismanagement by Telugu Ganga officials, stating that h2o was stored successful the Porumamilla vessel acold beyond its capableness portion diverting supplies to Badvel vessel and different downstream systems. While officials had earlier highlighted the palmy filling of Brahma Sagar and expanded irrigation benefits successful its ayacut, the organisation said non-ayacut farmers suffered terrible losses owed to mediocre regularisation of h2o levels.

The committee called for strict regularisation of retention levels successful some Brahma Sagar and Porumamilla tanks to forestall aboriginal flooding. If imperishable extortion was not feasible, it urged the authorities to get the submerged patta lands nether the 2013 Land Acquisition Act and connection just compensation. It besides sought contiguous fiscal alleviation of astatine slightest ₹30,000 per acre for farmers who mislaid their crops, stressing that hundreds of families successful Porumamilla mandal present look a superior livelihood crisis.