February 15, 2025

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Telangana: HC directs the state to compensate farmers for crop loss

In a key reduction to Telangana farmers, the Telangana Substantial Courtroom has directed the State Authorities to compensate the farmers for the crop losses they suffered thanks to heavy rains and floods past 12 months.

Acting on general public desire litigation filed by Rythu Swarajya Vedika leaders, a Substantial Courtroom Bench headed by the Acting Main Justice, M S Ramachandra Rao, discovered fault with the State Authorities for its failure to compensate the farmers from the Disaster Reduction Fund.

It was also significant for the Government’s failure to employ any crop insurance policies scheme in the State.

“Though it was extensively noted that the farmers suffered damages to their crop in about twenty five lakh acres thanks to heavy rains and floods in September and Oct, 2020. The State Authorities did not take any techniques to offer reduction to the affected farmers,” the RSV said.

When directing the State Authorities to enumerate and evaluate the damages to crop in a few months, the bench requested the Authorities to fork out them the reduction under Countrywide Disaster Management Act 2005 to all the beneficiaries, which include tenant farmers.

The court also directed the State to offer added and proper reduction to the tiny and marginal farmers, who suffered seriously for absence of crop insurance policies protection in four months.

 “Lakhs of farmers in the State are suffering crop reduction just about every 12 months thanks to pure calamities, landing them in substantial money owed. The State Authorities experienced admitted that they suffered a reduction of about  ₹7,219.5 crore in crop damages,” Vissa Kirankumar, a person of the petitioners, said.

Nevertheless the federal government didn’t offer the information under the RTI, it was forced to do make it general public thanks to the Courtroom orders, Ravi Kannekanti, another petitioner, said.

When welcoming the court buy, S Ashalatha, another petitioner, said that the Authorities need to have a mechanism for enrolling the actual cultivators in the light of the court buy.