CM KCR sets deadline for Rythu Bandhu

Hyderabad, May 23: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has instructed officers to ensure distribution of Rythu Bandu cheques and Pattadar passbooks to all eligible farmers by June 2.

The Chief Minister also expressed displeasure over the delay in completion of the programme due to technical problems and asked the officials to overcome these issues by the time the new registration policy came into effect on June 2.

"In some places, cheques and passbooks could not be distributed due to non-linkage of Aadhaar of farmers. But it also came to my notice that a few revenue officials were being irresponsible. It was also observed that purification of land records was not properly completed in some other places," he said.

The Chief Minister has also called for a meeting with the ministers and the collectors on Wednesday in Pragathi Bhavan to take stock of the progress of the whole programme as well as to review and formulate a proper strategy for distributing passbooks and cheques to those who are yet to get them.

He said that farmers are very happy that their land details and holdings have been rectified and updated besides issuing of new passbooks and investment support cheques, without spending even a single rupee.

He further said the Rythu Bandhu scheme had received applause from across the country.