Claiming that the government’s unpaid dues towards support price for milk had reached ₹669.59 crore during the BJP regime in the State, Congress MLC Dinesh Gooligowda has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to take steps for immediate release of the outstanding amount.
Mr. Gowda, who dispatched letters to Mr. Siddaramaiah and Mr. Shivakumar on Tuesday in the regard, said the government pays a support price of ₹5 per litre, which is credited directly into the bank accounts of the farmers.
The support price paid by the government is helpful to the farmers to purchase fodder and other expenses they routinely incur. But, the earlier BJP government had not paid the support price to the cattle farmers for the last seven months, Mr. Gooligowda claimed.
