CM KCR to interact with ministers, party MLAs, MLCs at Pragathi Bhavan today

Imposing restrictions on Rythu Bandhu during rabi to prevent farmers from cultivating paddy will be on top of the agenda at a high-level meeting convened by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. He will interact with ministers, party MLAs, MLCs, MPs and Rythu Bandhu Samithi district committees at Pragathi Bhavan here on Friday.

Party sources said that Rao will seek feedback from all the leaders before taking the final call on whether to impose the restrictions or not.

The scheme is being implemented without any restrictions since its launch in May 2018.



Under the scheme, the government credits Rs 5,000 per acre each in kharif and rabi directly into the bank accounts of over 60 lakh farmers, irrespective of the extent of land they hold.

Farmers owning 50 acres of land are getting Rs 5 lakh per year while the government is overall spending Rs 15,000 crore annually on the scheme.

This is for the first time that the government is contemplating restrictions, and comes in the wake of the Centre's decision of not procuring paddy from Telangana in rabi.