Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali said severe action will be taken against those who create duplicate pattadaar passbooks and cases booked under PD Act.
The latest passbooks were printed with many safeguards and cannot be tampered with, he said here on Sunday addressing a gathering of farmers before giving away pattadaar passbooks and cheques under Rythu Bandhu Scheme.
In the State 40% of revenue records were replete with mistakes and therefore Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao wanted to purify them immediately. Thus, the process began on September 15 and completed within 100 days, he said.
Appealing to farmers to utilise the opportunity of the RBS as the government was providing investment for agriculture, he said there was no such scheme for farmers anywhere in the country. Telangana was the fastest growing State even faster than Gujarat, he said and described Chief Minister as a messaiah of farming community.
Assuring the people of the village of making efforts to create Alur as mandal headquarters as per their wish, the Deputy CM said the State would go ahead of Punjab and Haryana in agricultural growth.
Agriculture Minister P. Srinivas Reddy said no chief minister had thought of the Rythu Bandhu Scheme which would enable the farmers to come out of the clutches of the fleecing moneylenders. If the reverse pumping system costing ₹1,089 crore was complete, the SRSP would get Godavari water from Mid Maneru Dam and provide water for irrigation throughout the year, he said. In addition to that, he said from Mid Maneru through LMD 10 lakh acres in Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam and Nalgonda would receive water.
To protect farmers from getting into debt trap the Chief Minister designed the RBS and this was not an election stunt, said the Rythu Samanvaya Samithi Chairman Gutha Sukhender Reddy. He said nowhere in the country 58 lakh farmers were getting farm investment from government.
Member of Parliament K. Kavitha said the TRS government changed the fate of villages by giving power supply for 24 hours. It also paid crop insurance to the tune of ₹500 crore, she said.
Member of Legislative Assembly A. Jeevan Reddy said in his Armoor constituency 40,000 farmers would get ₹13 crore as farm investment in the kharif season. District Collector M. Ram Mohan Rao and others were present.
Next tranche in Nov.
The Deputy CM said the government has been according top priority for the welfare of the farmers. Along with Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, he has participated in the Rytu Bandhu programme in Medak and Sangareddy districts on Sunday.
They distributed pattadaar passbooks and cheques to the beneficiaries. Mr. Srinivas Reddy said the second phase of cheque distribution would be in the month of November for summer crop.
Lok Sabha member B.B. Patil, MLC Fareeduddin, District Collector V. Venakteswarlu and others participated in the programme.
