Summary:
more-inWith the State government deciding to launch the Rythu Bandhu insurance scheme to the farmers from August 15 onwards, Minister for Agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy has informed the officials to submit the insurance scheme nomination forms by this month-end without fail. Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender said that the Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bandhu insurance scheme were not election stunts but aimed at the upliftment of the farming community, who were the backbone of the country. He said farmers in the age group of 18 to 60 years were eligible for insurance and that all farmers possessing pattadar passbooks were eligible to enrol in the insurance scheme. He said that the second phase of Rythu Bandhu investment support scheme would be issued in the month of November. He said that about 90% farmers had encashed the cheques issued under the Rythu Bandhu scheme and collected ?4,700 crore in the State..