-Farmers’ programmes being shelved: ex Minister
-Shame to YCP for halting national programmes
AMARAVATI: TDP former Minister S. Chandramohan Reddy on Saturday slammed the YSRCP Government for making a ‘laughing stock’ out of the free crop insurance scheme in Andhra Pradesh.
Chandramohan Reddy said the State and the Central Governments would together pay 98 percent as against just 2 percent contribution from farmers. Such a pro-farmer insurance programme has also been diluted without any concern or commitment.
Addressing a press conference here, the TDP leader said that the YCP Government was trampling upon the rights of farmers in every way possible. No information was being provided on the website from 2020. Many farmers’ programmes have been cancelled in the past three years.
Chandramohan Reddy asserted that the earlier TDP regime made significant contributions in drip irrigation during its five year rule. Instead of shelving the existing programmes, the Jagan Reddy Government should have become a role model by implementing them in a better way.
The TDP leader said that their Government spent Rs. 600 Cr for mechanisation of agriculture. The YCP rule should give details of how much it had spent in the past three years. The ruling party should bow its head in shame for halting the programmes being implemented all over the country.
Chandramohan Reddy said the agriculture department was claiming it had given Rs. 2,977 Cr towards crop insurance. If that was true, the Government should give details of the claims and names of beneficiary farmers. It should explain why insurance was not paid towards chilli crop losses in over 4.5 lakh acres in 2021 kharif.
The TDP leader said the State Government claimed it had given insurance to 34 crops. How much compensation was given for each crop? Nobody would believe it if the YCP regime would just say that it had given Rs. 2,900 Cr by simply pressing a button. Can the Government dare provide full details of this on the website?
Chandramohan Reddy said after seeing the GN Rao, Boston and districts reorganisations reports, there was no scope to trust the planning department any more.
