Telangana splurges Rs 1000 crore per year on rich ryots
The expenditure incurred on Rythu Bandhu for them is Rs 163 crore per yearThe expenditure incurred on Rythu Bandhu is Rs 781 crore per yearThe data shows that 98652 persons in Telangana own lands above 10 acres each and together own 1497 lakh acresThe government hoped that if the majority of these landowners opted out of Rythu Bandhu it could save at least Rs 1000 crore per yearSurprisingly nearly 400 of them have again submitted applications to agriculture department to reclaim Rythu Bandhu
A few IAS and IPS officers gazetted officers industrialists businessmen etc also reportedly gave up Rythu Bandhu but their names were kept a secret In all just 1980 persons in the entire state gave up the benefit TwitterHYDERABAD It seems there are not many takers for the Telangana governments give it up campaign which was meant to encourage rich landowners and farmers to voluntarily opt out of its flagship welfare programme Rythu Bandhu to reduce its financial burdenAs per the official data only 2000 agriculture landowners out of over 63 lakh beneficiaries in the state opted for the Rythu Bandhu give it up option Of them 400 landowners submitted applications to the agriculture department to reclaim the benefitUnder Rythu Bandhu the government transfers Rs 10000 per acre per year Rs 5000 each in kharif and rabi to all landowners irrespective of the extent of land they own The government is spending nearly Rs 15000 crore per year on this schemeThe government has taken up give it up campaign with the prime objective of encouraging landowners who own agricultural land above 10 acres to voluntarily opt out of the scheme Official sources in the agriculture department said there were 6679 persons in Telangana who owned more than 25 acres each They together own nearly 225 lakh acres on whom the government was spending Rs 225 crore towards Rythu Bandhu every year at the rate of Rs 10000 per acre per yearThere are 7367 persons who own land between 20 acres and 25 acres They together own 163 lakh acres The expenditure incurred on Rythu Bandhu for them is Rs 163 crore per yearThere are 19195 persons who own land between 15 acres and 20 acres who together own 328 lakh acres The Rythu Bandhu expenditure is Rs 328 crore per yearSimilarly 65411 persons own lands between 10 acres and 15 acres who together own 781 lakh acres The expenditure incurred on Rythu Bandhu is Rs 781 crore per yearThe data shows that 98652 persons in Telangana own lands above 10 acres each and together own 1497 lakh acres The government is incurring expenditure of Rs 1497 crore per year towards Rythu BandhuThe government hoped that if the majority of these landowners opted out of Rythu Bandhu it could save at least Rs 1000 crore per year But the ground reality looks contrastingChief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was the first to give up Rythu Bandhu during its launch in May 2018 while giving a call to all rich landowners to voluntarily opt out of the schemeFollowing the Chief Ministers call a few ministers A Indrakaran Reddy Tummala Nageshwar Rao and Patnam Mahender Reddy gave up Rythu Bandhu then A few IAS and IPS officers gazetted officers industrialists businessmen etc also reportedly gave up Rythu Bandhu but their names were kept a secret In all just 1980 persons in the entire state gave up the benefitSurprisingly nearly 400 of them have again submitted applications to agriculture department to reclaim Rythu Bandhu
