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Congress seeks ryots’ support

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‘Rythu protsahaka utsavalu’ get under way

Show gratitude and help launch more schemes: ZP chief
Officials assessing loss due to dry spell: Collector

VIZIANAGARAM: Congress leaders have asked farmers to “favour” the Congress and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in return for the sops extended to them during the last four and half years.

Speaking at the ‘Rythu protsahaka utsavalu’ that was inaugurated at the Revenue Kalyanamandapam here on Wednesday, Zilla Parishad chairperson B. Appala Naidu, while detailing the concessions offered, including free power and loan waiver, and criticising the TDP Government for neglecting the agriculture sector during its tenure, asked farmers to show gratitude, repay it in another form and help the Congress launch more schemes for their benefit in future.

K. Veerabhadra Swamy, MLA, recalled the sufferings of farmers during drought from 1995 to 2003 and asked them to avail themselves the opportunity. He urged them to strengthen the Congress and its leadership.

Incentive

Collector G. Ram Narayana Reddy, who was present, said that an incentive of Rs. 5,000 was being paid to those who repaid loan amount in time and not covered under the loan waiver scheme.

Stating that the Chief Minister had signed the first file offering free power to farmers in addition to introducing many welfare schemes for their benefit, the Collector said that the amount would be credited to ones account if the credit advisory certificates with account numbers of individual farmers that were being given at the ‘utsavalu’ were produced in the notified banks. If the amount, in any case, were to be adjusted against the loan availed, a farmer must have to give his willingness in writing, Mr. Reddy said.

With regard to crop loss due to dry spell, the Collector said that Rs.4,500 per hectare would be paid as compensation if the loss was more than 50 per cent. Already, revenue and agriculture officials began assessment of the loss in mandals, he added.

K.V.V. Suryanarayana Raju, DCMS chairman, M. Simhachalam Naidu, DCCB chairman, agriculture and revenue officials and 920 farmers from Vizianagaram mandal who were benefited under the scheme were present. The ‘utsavalu’ will be held in each mandal up to November 30.

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