Ponnam alleges on TS govt, over farmer issues

Telangana, Karimnagar, June 19: Former MP and TPCC vice president Ponnam Prabhakar has asked the State Government to understand the realistic problems of the farmers at the ground level like unpaid dues of their produce in market yards and lackadaisical attitude of the bankers in extending loans even as the Kharif season has begun, and take appropriate steps rather than making fancy statements.

In a letter written to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao here, Mr. Prabhakar said that though Marketing Minister, T. Harish Rao and Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy were making tall statements of releasing the money due to farmers in just one day, farmers are forced to go around the market yards for weeks and yet their money was not released.

At the same time, banks were not extending loans and farmers were forced to run to private lenders.