The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the Congress government in Telangana announce a relief of ₹25,000 per acre to farmers whose crops have withered and were abandoned due to lack of water for irrigation despite efforts to protect crops by sinking new borewells as also those suffered crop loss due to untimely rain, hails and gales.
A delegation of the Opposition party comprising T. Harish Rao, Kadiyam Srihari, Satyavathi Rathod, Errabelli Dayakar Rao and Peddi Sudarshan Reddy visited Chintabai Thanda in Devaruppala mandal of Palakurthi constituency in Jangaon district on Sunday to examine the withered crops. Several farmers of the village poured out their woes and discussed the loss suffered by them due to crop damage and with their futile efforts to save the crops by sinking of new borewells.
Several farmers explained to the BRS leaders that borewells had gone dry due to lack of water release to canals this season and their efforts to save crops with new borewells had also ended up in failure due to lack of groundwater. Farmers Shiva Shankar, Satyamma, Narsimha, Janku, Laxmi and Vijaya stated that they dug 6, 4, 3, 9, 6 and 4 borewells each, respectively during the last three months but failed to get water.
