KAKINADA: Civil supplies minister Nadendla Manohar assured the paddy farmers that the state government is making arrangements to make payments to them within 48 hours in the coming Kharif season. He also said tarpaulins would be supplied to the farmers with a 50 percent subsidy and crop insurance would be paid by the government in time. Manohar visited the Eluru and Konaseema districts on Monday and cleared the arrears of the farmers.Minister said the previous YSRC government did not pay the arrears of Rs 1674.47 crore to 84,724 farmers for their produce and the present government has cleared the amount. He said the previous government pushed the farmers into trouble by taking Rs 40,500 crore of loans from the banks in the name of the civil supplies department but never paying their dues to the paddy farmers. Manohar said steps were being taken to repay Rs 10,000 crore to the banks by March 2025. He said that the farmers need not be afraid of the mediators, traders and millers as the present government would streamline the process to help the farmers.Eluru district collector K. Vetri Selvi said that the previous government purchased more than 2 lakh metric tonnes of paddy from 17,496 farmers in Eluru district and had to pay Rs 200 crore of arrears and the present government cleared the arrears in two phases. Civil Supplies Corporation managing director Veera Pandiyan, Eluru MP Putta Mahesh Kumar and MLAs Kamineni Srinivas, Bolisetty Srinivas, Chintamaneni Prabhakar, Badeti Radhakrishna, Songa Roshan Kumar, P. Dharma Raju, S. Balaraju, Zilla Parishad chairman Ganta Padma Sri were present at the event.
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