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HYDERABAD
Civil Supplies and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy accused the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) enactment of spreading lies connected the ongoing Rabi paddy procurement operations to mislead farmers and fell its ain grounds of procurement failures.
In a crisp rebuttal to the allegations of BRS moving president K.T. Rama Rao, Mr. Reddy said, “His (KTR’s) sole docket is to make a politically manufactured chaos among farmers. But, it volition backfire.”
“The Congress Government is executing the largest-ever paddy procurement cognition successful Telangana’s past contempt terrible manpower shortage, monolithic logistical challenges and an unprecedented standard of arrivals. While BRS is engaged spreading confusion, Government is ensuring that each atom brought by farmers is procured and each rupee reaches farmers‘ accounts,” helium said.
Rejecting KTR’s allegations, the curate said authoritative figures had exposed the hollowness of the BRS campaign. By May 21, Telangana had already recorded 54.29 lakh tonnes of paddy arrivals and retired of which 46.21 LT was procured, accounting for astir 85% procurement of the arrivals truthful far. The procurement transactions of much than 6.32 lakh farmers had already been completed and ₹7,841 crore was credited to farmers’ slope accounts.
Taking a excavation astatine the erstwhile BRS regime, the curate said the Congress Government had already outperformed aggregate Rabi procurement seasons handled by the erstwhile government. He pointed retired that during the BRS regime, procurement stood astatine lone 26.78 LT successful Rabi 2021-22 and 36.63 LT successful Rabi 2022-23, whereas the Congress Government had already crossed 48.21 LT procurement this play with procurement operations inactive continuing.
“Those who failed farmers for years are present incapable to digest the standard and transparency of the Congress Government’s farmer-first procurement model,” Mr. Uttam Reddy said.
Responding to the allegations of gunny bags shortage, the curate termed the them “completely fabricated and irresponsible”. He said the authorities had already positioned astir 20 crore gunny bags crossed procurement centres and capable stocks were disposable to grip the full procurement process smoothly.
He stated that the authorities was conducting regular reviews, deploying much than 13,000 trucks and lorries each time and continuously monitoring logistics, lifting and transportation. Over 43 LT of paddy had already been shifted to atom mills, portion further stocks were being transported to retention facilities without interruption.
He besides deed backmost astatine the attempts by the Opposition to politically exploit farmers’ deaths by linking them to procurement delays. “Using farmers for governmental play is shameful and insensitive,” helium said.
