Expressing concern over non-procurement of paddy by providing minimum support price to the farmers, the newly elected legislators of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have urged the district administration to take appropriate measures to procure paddy by providing MSP.
The TRS team led by its district president Eda Shankar Reddy, newly elected legislators Etala Rajender, Gangula Kamalakar, Putta Madhukar, D Manohar Reddy have met the Collector here on Wednesday and urged him to provide MSP to the paddy which was damaged in the recent rains.
Later, talking to newsmen, Etala Rajender said that though there was bumper harvest of paddy in the district, but the civil supplies department had failed to procure the produce.
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The IKP procurement centre and others had not even procured 20 per cent of the farmers produce, he said and added that the farmers were forced to sell their produce at less than the MSP to the traders due to no intervention by the government agencies and incurred huge losses. He said that they would talk with the authorities belonging to the Civil supplies department and solve the farmers problems within two days.
Karimnagar MP-elect B Vinod Rao said that they would take all measures to fulfil the promises made during the elections such as increasing of pensions, construction of two-bed room houses to poor, waiver of crop loans to the farmers etc. On this occasion, the representatives belonging to the district police officers association and TNGOs have felicitated the newly elected MP and legislators. However, the Karimnagar legislator elect Gangula Kamalakar refused the felicitations.
1.TRS team comprising newly elected MLAs Etala Rajender, Gangula Kamalakar, Putta Madhukar, D Manohar Reddy and Karimnagar district president Eda Shankar Reddy meet the Collector2.The Civil Supplies Department failed to procure the produce and the IKP procurement centre and others have not procured even 20 per cent: Etala Rajender
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3.The party will take all measures to fulfil the promises made during the elections such as increasing of pensions, construction of two-bed room houses to poor, waiver of crop loans to the farmers, says Karimnagar MP-elect B Vinod Rao