Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha lashed out at Nizamabad MP Aravind Dharmapuri accusing him of cheating the turmeric farmers of the district by securing a mere ₹200 per farmer after making a promise of setting up the Turmeric Board.
Revealing the funds sanctioned by the Central Government for turmeric farmers in the last three years, she said that all that Mr. Aravind could get was just ₹1.92 crore for close to one lakh turmeric farmers and that translated to a mere ₹200 per farmer. She said that this data was obtained through RTI queries and added that Mr. Aravind cannot deceive people forever.
Ms. Kavitha, who represented Nizamabad in Parliament from 2014 to 2019, said that for the year 2020-21, a sum of ₹1,18,71,000 was allocated out of which ₹75 lakh was assistance towards boilers and ₹43.71 lakh was for assistance towards turmeric polishers.
