Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, for the fifth consecutive year, will release the first instalment of YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan assistance of Rs 3,923.21 crore to 52,30,939 farmers directly into the bank accounts of farmers at Pattikonda incon Thursday. He will also address a public meeting at the St. Joseph English Medium High School.
CM Jagan will release the assistance with a click of a button in Pattikonda, Kurnool district. An amount of Rs.5,500 will be deposited directly into the farmers’ accounts. Another Rs.2,000 under PM Kisan will be credited into the accounts of the farmers as soon as those funds are released.
The officials said that in an unprecedented initiative, the Jagan government was extending the assistance of Rs.13,500 every year under ‘YSR Rythu Bharosa’ scheme to all landless SC, ST, BC and minority tenant farmers along with the farmers cultivating ROFR and Endowment lands including the eligible farmers cultivating their own lands.
The officials explained that an assistance of Rs.13,500 will be given under ‘YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan’ in three instalments every year — first instalment of Rs.7,500 in May at the time of the Kharif sowing season, second instalment of Rs.4,000 in October for harvesting Kharif crop and third instalment of Rs.2,000 in January / February at the time of crop harvest.
The officials stated that including today’s assistance, the Jagan government has credited Rs.61,500 in these four years to each farmer under ‘YSR Rythu Bharosa – PM KISAN’ alone. Including the present financial assistance of Rs.3,923 crore, the YSRCP government has disbursed Rs.30,985 crore in the past four years to farmers under ‘YSR Rythu Bharosa – PM KISAN’ alone. It is more than they had promised. The promised amount in the manifesto was Rs. 50,000 (Rs.12,500 x 4 years), while the Jagan government is extending Rs. 67,500 (Rs 13,500 x 5 years).
Further, CM Jagan would deposit an amount of Rs.53.62 crore “Input Subsidy” directly into farmers’ bank accounts — disbursal of Input Subsidy of Rs.44.19 crore to the 47,999 affected farmers, who were selected transparently after conducting social audit in every RBK at village level, who lost their crops in 30,382 hectares due to untimely rains in the months of March, April, May 2023, and Rs.9.43 crores to the 3,469 farmers whose jowar and maize crops were damaged by heavy rains after the harvest. The officials added that the Jagan government had distributed an Input Subsidy assistance of Rs.1,965 crore in these four years alone to 22.74 lakh farmers, who lost their crops due to natural calamities.
Meanwhile, the arrangements for CM Jagan’s visit were inspected by the CM’s programme coordinator Talasila Raghuram, District Collector Dr. G. Srijana, SP G. Krishnakanth, and other officials on Wednesday. Jagan will arrive at the Orvakal airport at approximately 9.30 a.m. on Thursday. He will proceed to Pattikonda by helicopter to participate in the Rythu Bharosa programme. The public meeting will be held at the grounds of St. Joseph’s English Medium School in Pathikonda town.
