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1,500 bonus from AP govt to chilli farmers
AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday assured chilli farmers that his government would continue with the bonus of Rs 1,500 per quintal which it had announced recently. However, the bonus comes with a 20 quintal cap.
New Delhi: AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday assured chilli farmers that his government would continue with the bonus of Rs 1,500 per quintal which it had announced recently. However, the bonus comes with a 20 quintal cap.
This would be in addition to the Rs 6,250, which the Centre has announced on Wednesday as part of market intervention scheme. Talking to media, Chandrababu Naidu said that with the Centre’s intervention and the bonus announced by AP Government, the farmer would get good price.
Naidu said he had appealed to the Centre to bear half the cost of the additional Rs 1,500 which the Andhra Pradesh government was offering to the farmers. Cautioning the farmers against the pitfalls of raising commercial crops, he said he appealed to the Centre to evolve a mechanism to come to the aid of the farmers growing commercial crops, "be it onions, edible oils or pulses".
The CM said that he urged Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to evolve guidelines and a policy to implement the Special Economic Assistance announced for AP in the past and ratified by the Cabinet later.
The Chief Secretary of the State was asked to interact with the Ministry officials to execute the same by the Union Minister, he added. Referring to the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act 2014, he pleaded with Jaitley for release of funds due towards the Revenue Deficit of AP, Rural Area Development schemes and MNREGA dues.
He said he appealed to the Centre to allow the State to sell red sanders seized by the State from smugglers and also allow the State to have an harvest plan for red sanders. In his meeting with NITI Aayog officials, the CM urged them to implement the report of the Sub-Committee headed by him on Mobile Currency and eEconomy ways (submitted to the Aayog sometime back) incorporating the best practices of the eEconomies around the world.
