6 months ago
2
YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused the NDA authorities successful Andhra Pradesh of pursuing anti-farmer policies and neglecting the plight of cultivators devastated by Cyclone Montha.
After touring the affected villages and interacting with the farmers connected Tuesaday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said the State authorities had dismantled the harvest security mechanism, leaving lakhs of farmers without support.
The authorities should wage harvest security compensation to each the farmers, stating that “armchair enumeration” led to irregularities. Citing Bapatla district, wherever e-cropping figures ranged betwixt 112% and 120%, which, helium said, indicated haphazard and inflated reporting process.
The authorities should instantly merchandise harvest security payments, on with the pending dues of ₹600 crore, helium said.
“It is Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s responsibility to discontinue harvest insurance. The authorities indispensable present carnivore the load and compensate each farmer. They indispensable besides wage the premium for the upcoming rabi season,” the erstwhile Chief Minister said portion addressing the media.
He criticised the authorities for “hurried and flawed” harvest enumeration, claiming that officials were instructed to decorativeness assessments successful a day. “Enumeration teams ne'er visited the fields successful respective districts, starring to under-reporting of losses crossed 15 lakh acres,” helium alleged.
The YSRCP main said paddy successful 11 lakh acres was ruined, alongside extended losses to cotton, maize, banana, and different crops.
“While farmers suffered, Mr. Naidu conducted an aerial survey and near for London, and his lad and HRD Minister N. Lokesh attended a cricket lucifer successful Mumbai,” Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy alleged.
In the conjugation government’s 18-month tenure, the State faced 16 disasters ranging from cyclones to droughts, and yet farmers received neither empathy nor aid, helium said. He besides accused the authorities of scaling down the grade of harvest nonaccomplishment to evade compensation and of paying lone ₹5,000 retired of the ₹20,000 input subsidy promised for 2 years.
In contrast, helium said, during the YSRCP government, input subsidies and harvest security were paid promptly, and a ₹3,000 crore Price Stabilisation Fund maintained to guarantee Minimum Support Price for farmers, with a full of ₹7,800 crore spent to safeguard their interests.
The once-effective Rythu Bharosa Kendras had go non-functional nether the existent regime, helium said. “During our government, we paid harvest security premia for 85 lakh farmers. Now, lone 19 lakh are covered due to the fact that the authorities failed to wage premium for others,” helium said.
