‘BJP and Congress unleashing vicious campaign against TRS’
The Hindu
Govt. didn’t neglect ryots: Minister
Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy has strongly objected the criticism being made by opposition BJP and Congress parties who said that the State government had neglected farmers who died in the last seven years.
The Minister said that these allegations are baseless.
“In the last three years as much as Rs. 3,384.95 crore was paid to families of farmers under Rytu Beema whereas a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh each was paid to the families of 67,699 farmers. Telangana is the only state in the world which has been implementing Rytu Beema and Rytu Bandhu. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is pro-farmer and that was why scheme like Rytu Beema was introduced to come to the rescue of farmers,” said Mr Niranjan Reddy in a release here on Monday.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.