Telangana government to credit assistance under Rythu Bharosa, Atmeeya Bharosa by March 31, says Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy ensures timely disbursement of financial aid to farmers and landless laborers, launching multiple welfare schemes.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has asserted that his government is committed to crediting the amounts assured to all eligible farmers under Rythu Bharosa and the first instalment of the sustenance allowance of ₹6,000 to landless farm labour under Indiramma Atmeeya Bharosa by March 31.

“We will credit ₹10,000 crore under Rythu Bharosa for all the arable lands and ₹6,000 each to 10 lakh families identified under the Atmeeya Bharosa by March-end,” the Chief Minister said after formally launching four schemes — Rythu Bharosa, Indiramma Atmeeya Bharosa, distribution of ration cards and Iindiramma Indlu weaker section housing programmes — simultaneously at Chandravancha village in Kosgi mandal of his native Kodangal constituency on Sunday (January 26).

The amounts assured to eligible beneficiaries under the two schemes would be credited into their accounts from Sunday midnight and the government was committed to construct 4.5 lakh houses under the Indiramma Indlu programme with an estimated outlay of ₹22,500 crore, he said.

The launch of the four schemes follows initiatives like filling 55,145 vacant government posts, free power up to 200 units to eligible poor and provision of LPG cylinder at subsidised price of ₹500. The government had incurred expenditure in excess of ₹4,000 crore in one year after introducing free bus travel to women. It had also fulfilled its promise of crop loan waiver to 22.50 lakh farmers involving an outgo of ₹21,000 crore on the State exchequer.

He recalled the Congress’ association with farmers citing free power to agriculture and waiver of power dues of farmers implemented by the then government headed by late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. The UPA government on its part waived crop loans to the tune of ₹72,000 crore during its tenure. “There is still a need for supporting the poor to alleviate their problems and my government is committed in this direction,” he said.

Mr. Revanth Reddy launched a trenchant attack on the previous BRS government headed by former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao claiming that the latter ordered a CBCID probe into allocation of houses to poor in Kodangal constituency. “Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao, who claims to have read 80,000 books, and his son K.T. Rama Rao never bothered about giving ration cards to the needy,” he said.

The government had therefore decided to issue ration cards to 40 lakh families so that they could avail of fine rice from the PDS shops using them. Accordingly, applications were received from eligible beneficiaries through gram sabhas. “Have the officials visited villages during the previous government? Our government has ensured that the entire Cabinet and senior officials are in villages to get first hand knowledge about the situation existing at the grass root level,” he said.