KCR Urges Input Subsidy To Farmers: State 6
KCR Urges Input Subsidy To Farmers: State 6
KCR Urges Input Subsidy To Farmers: State 6
STATE
HYDERABAD
THE HINDU
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HYDERABAD: The Telangana gov-
The Central Government team inspecting the Manjeera project at Sangareddy in Medak district on Tuesday. -PHOTO: MOHD ARIF
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HYDERABAD: Telangana Telugu Desam leaders have
Alarming in Medak
R AVADHANI
SANGAREDDY: We have visited several places in the district to examine the
drought conditions. The situation is alarming. Crop loss is heavy and cattle
distress is also observed. People complained about drinking water problem
in every village, was the comment made by the Central team leader
Maharaj Kumar.
Addressing a meeting at
Collectorate on Tuesday evening after
visiting Sardarnagar Tanda, Rajaram
tanda, Morgi in Kangti mandal and
Chief Secretary
Chowkanpally and Gurdur Manoor
sought Rs. 2,431
mandal in the district along with other
crore relief but it is team members Om Kishore and Om
Sharma-, Senior IAS officer and
very little compared Datta
Sports Authority of Telangana MD A.
to crop loss.
Dinakarbabu, Collector D. Ronald Rose,
Mr Maharaj Kumar said that the Chief
Maharaj Kumar
Secretary sought Rs. 2,431 crore as
drought relief and it was very little
comparing with crop loss incurred by farmers. While Medak district
administration proposed a drought relief of Rs. 1,600 crore, Nizamabad
district, which we visited yesterday, sought about Rs. 1,400 crore. We will
make our recommendations based on our visit, Mr. Maharaj Kumar said.
During the visit, villagers and farmers explained to the team members
about the drought and its adverse impact on them. One bore-well at
Rajaram Tanda yielded only six pots of water when officials switched it on
to understand the ground water level. Farmers had shown the dried crop.
Farmers showing the withered crops to the central team which visited various parts of
Karimnagar district on Tuesday. -PHOTO: BY ARRANGEMENT.
K.M. DAYASHANKAR
KARIMNAGAR: The Central team,
which had visited the Karimnagar district were greeted
with withered crops, dried up
fields and wells and also
parched tanks in various parts
of the district on Tuesday.
The team headed by Brijesh
Srivatsava, Srinivas and Venkateshwarlu toured several
the drought. Villagers also explained about the drinking water woes for them as well as cattle and non-availability of
fodder. Mr. Srivatsava said that
the drought was alarming in the
district and said that the team
would ensure that more funds
were released to the district.
He also said that they would
make suggestion for including
more mandals
CM
YK
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B. CHANDRASHEKHAR
TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy chairing a meeting of committee for GHMC polls. Rivals
Danam Nagender and Marri Shashidhar Reddy also share the dais. -PHOTO: MOHAMMED YOUSUF
Farmers
pour out
their woes
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WARANGAL: Scores of farmers related their woes before the ninemember Central team that has
come to assess the drought situation in the district here on
Tuesday.
Particularly the cotton farmers urged the officers to ensure
payment of Rs. 15,000 compensation for acre of crop loss. Untimely rains and bad weather
conditions affected the sowing
and harvesting of crop and the
yields were very low. The
meagre minimum support price
offered by the government and
the low price offered by the traders compounded the problems,
the farmers complained. Of the
nine-member Central team
headed by Utpal Kumar Singh,
three members S Srinivas, Brajesh Srivatsava and M Singh visited Cherial and Bachhannapet
mandals in the district along
with senior official from the
State G Kishan who acted as the
liaison officer for the team .
Pathetic
Later in the day, the members interacted with the representatives of different political parties
and received memoranda from
them at the district Collectorate.
Mr Srivatsava describing the
condition of farmers as pathetic
said they were demanding for
Rs. 15,000 compensation per
acre. We will come up with a
comprehensive report on the
findings and submit the report to Central government for
necessary action, he said. TDP
MLA Errabelli Dayakar Rao and
party leader Revuri Prakash
Reddy, Congress leaders T Veeranna and B Navneen Naik appealed to the members to declare the district drought hit.
The State government had declared Cheriyal, Maddur, Narmetta, Bachhannapet, Jangaon,
Lingala Ghanpur, Raghunathpalli, Station
Ghanpur, Dharmasagar, Zafarghad and Narsimhulupet as
drought hit mandals in the
district.
District collector V Karuna,
Joint Collector Prashanth J Patil,
joint director agriculture Gangaram and others were present.
ernment is formulating a
credit guarantee scheme for
the Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) sector
as well as a policy to promote
exports.
Announcing this here on
Tuesday, Secretary to the Industries and Commerce Department Arvind Kumar said
the scheme for the micro,
small and medium enterprises is to be launched in collaboration with the Small Industries Development Bank of
India (SIDBI).
The senior official, who
was addressing a seminar on
Insurance awareness consultation campaign organised by
the ECGC Ltd, said the
Bhongir Municipal
Chairperson joins TRS
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Konda Murali
figures in TRS list
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HYDERABAD: The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on
Tuesday announced the remaining five names for elections to 12 Local Authorities
seats in the Legislative Council including that of Konda
Murali, husband of party legislator Konda Surekha, from
Warangal district.
Party leaders K. Keshava
Rao, D. Srinivas and Minister
Jupally Krishna Rao announced the names in the party office. The remaining four
candidates are Sunkireddy Jagadish Reddy and Kasireddy
Narayan Reddy from Mahabubnagar and Patnam Narender Reddy and Shambipur Raju from Ranga Reddy. Mr.
Narender Reddy is the younger brother of Minister P. Mahender Reddy. The other seven TRS candidates already
announced by the ruling party
include R. Bhoopathi Reddy
from Nizamabad, T. Chinnapa
Reddy from Nalgonda, Balasani
Laxminarayana
from
Khammam, V. Bhoopal Reddy
from Medak, Puranam Satish
from Adilabad and N. Laxman