Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president Ok.T. Rama Rao visited Mushampalli village of Nalgonda on Monday and interacted with farmers together with Ganneboina Mallaiah and Borla Ram Reddy, who’re identified for sinking a number of borewells to guard their standing crops throughout the Statehood motion.
Mr. Mallaiah stated they’ve incurred big losses this season because the crops cultivated had gone dry following shortage of water for irrigation and his efforts to save lots of the crop by sinking new borewells had additionally proved futile.
The farmers informed the BRS chief that they have been dealing with ingesting water and irrigation issues for the primary time since 2014. He said that the current drought situation was not brought on by nature however because of the “inefficient” Congress authorities.
Mr. Rama Rao alleged that the federal government had enacted a ‘drama’ by showcasing the Kaleshwaram venture as a failure and never filling the reservoirs/irrigation tanks linked to it. However, forward of occasion president Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao’s scheduled go to to Karimnagar district on April 6 to console farmers who’ve suffered crop loss resulting from lack of water for irrigation, the federal government had began pumping water from Gayatri (Laxmipur) and Nandi (Nandi Medaram) pump homes to produce water to Karimnagar.
“Till yesterday, they had been saying that the Kaleshwaram project was a total failure but today they are lifting ater with the same ‘bahubali’ pumps. As long as KCR was the chief mMinister, even tail-end areas of Nagarjunasagar were supplied water, but this season even the upper reaches have not been given water resulting in withering of crops cultivated with huge investment,” Mr. Rama Rao stated.
Farmer Ram Reddy defined that the farming neighborhood was in dire straits and he needed to sink six borewells over the last 4 months whereas he didn’t must sink even one borewell up to now 10 years.
Mr. Rama Rao stated the Congress authorities had allowed the standing crops to go dry with an inexpensive thought of blaming the earlier BRS authorities and Mr.Chandrasekhar Rao. He demanded that the federal government lengthen a reduction of ₹25,000 per acre to all farmers whose crops had withered resulting from lack of water for irrigation as the current drought circumstances have been the “result of inaction of the government” to supply even the out there water.