Minister for Information Technology and Public Relations Palle Raghunatha Reddy said that the government was committed to the welfare of farmers.
Speaking to farmers at the market yard at Kothacheruvu in Anantapur district on Saturday, he said that the government was making all efforts to make farmers ‘kings’ of the society and cited the farm loan waiver scheme as an example of the government’s intentions.
The Minister gave away loan waiver certificates to horticulture farmers who have been given the certificate for the entirety of their outstanding eligible loan amount as against other farmers whose loans have been repaid in tranches by the government.
He said that the State government had waived the loans of 5,904 horticulture farmers in the district worth over Rs. 17.09 crore with 303 farmers of the Puttaparthy constituency alone getting a waiver worth Rs 1.14 crore. The farm loan waiver scheme, implemented by the State government as per the promise made by Chief Minister N. Chandrababau Naidu during his padayatra before the elections, was a record of sorts with loans worth Rs 24,000 crore being waived benefiting 84 lakh farmers of the State, Mr Raghunatha Reddy said.
Minister for Civil Supplies Paritala Sunita also participated in various functions organised in her constituency of Rapthadu for distribution of loan waiver certificates and said that the State government was a pro-farmer government.
