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BJP’s Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao has demanded the authorities to instrumentality steps to acquisition the rain-affected paddy from farmers immediately, and accused it of negligence regarding constitution of procurement centres.
On Friday, Mr. Rao was interacting with farmers of Nalgonda and Suryapet, who expressed distress astir their paddy harvest drenched by dense rains and astir the alleged nonaccomplishment of authorities successful establishing procurement centers connected time, resulting successful their hard enactment being washed away.
The BJP person charged the Congress leaders of colluding with atom millers to hold the procurement of farmers’ paddy aft inspecting the procurement centres successful Nakrekal, Chityala and Chivemla to personally measure the problems faced by farmers and cheque the concern astatine marketplace yards.
Mr. Rao stated that galore procurement centres deficiency indispensable facilities specified arsenic tarpaulins, moisture-drying machines and retention facilities causing overmuch hardship to the tiny and marginal farmers. He questioned wherefore the procurement process is tardy erstwhile the Centre pays for each the expenses including transport, gunny container and porter charges, too providing commissions to the civilian supplies department.
Even the involvement connected immoderate slope indebtedness taken by the authorities for procurement is borne by the Centre, helium reminded. The enactment has sent 3 teams to assorted districts to recognize the harvest nonaccomplishment concern crossed the authorities and the problems faced by farmers astatine the procurement centres, helium said.
Enhance compensation
In a abstracted property conference, legislature enactment person A. Maheshwar Reddy said that the authorities should springiness compensation of ₹30,000 an acre and ex gratia outgo of ₹30 lakh for those who mislaid their lives owed to the cyclone. About 5 lakh acres of cultivation onshore and 2.8 lakh farmers got affected, helium claimed.
Farmers’ associations person besides raised concerns astir the government’s effect and calling for the merchandise of a White Paper detailing the grade of harvest harm and fiscal assistance provided by the authorities since the Congress came to power, added Mr. Reddy.
