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Information has also been sought from the income tax department as the Centre specified that income tax payers are not eligible under the scheme. Data of the remaining beneficiaries will be upload on the server by March 1,” said Chitla Partha Sarathi, principal secretary, agriculture, Telangana.Telangana uploaded data of 8.3 lakh farmers on Monday and another 5.6 lakh farmers on Tuesday. 9.4 lakh beneficiaries are from the general category, 2.4 lakh from SC while 1.4 lakh beneficiaries are from the ST category.Initially, officials planned to take self-declaration from the farmers stating they are not ineligible for the scheme. Among these, Siddipet district has the highest number of beneficiaries (79,417) followed by Nalgonda ( 77,345) and Nagarkurnool (74,606). But with the centre in a hurry to launch the programme, declarations will be taken later..