SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
Eight social parties released a joint statement on Wednesday, September 2, urging the state government to implement the 2011 Licensed Cultivators Act promptly to recognize client farmers in the state, issue identification cards to licensed cultivators, and give them access to government programs and other support systems.
The Telangana Tenant Farmers Recognition Struggle Committee, led by its chairwoman, Prof. D. Narasimha Reddy, presided over the gathering.
According to the speech, tenant farmers should be notified when the Kharif time comes to an end, following the regulations set for the 2011 Act’s implementation. Additionally, they urged landlord farmers to be able to use their identification cards to sell the plants they cultivate straight to the authorities at Minimum Support Prices ( MSP).
The parties claimed that the government should finish any paperwork necessary to begin the recognition of client farmers before the Assembly program started on September 7.
Representatives from each of the eight political events authorized the speech. Sunketi Anvesh Reddy, a member of the Congress and former state president of the Kisan Congress, Prof. Kodandaram, an MLC and state president of the Telangana Jana Samithi, Dr. Visharadan Maharaj, a state president of the Dharma Samaj Party, J. V. Chalapathi Rao, the leader of the CPI ( ML–New Democracy ), Potu Ranga Rao, the state secretary of CPI ( ML–
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Prof. Haragopal, the convener of TPJAC, demanded that tenant farmers, who are among the hardest-hit by the agrarian problems, get identified right away and offered assistance at the meeting.
The 2011 Licensed Cultivators Act was passed by the next complete Andhra Pradesh Assembly to allow tenant farmers to be classified as cultivators. Following the state’s establishment, Telangana also adopted the Act. In Telangana, the Act was put into effect in 2015 and 2016, leading to the identification of client farmers and the release of thousands of identity cards.
But, starting in 2017, the state’s application of the Act was suspended.
Resident farmers have been having issues as the central and state governments have switched agricultural schemes, including PM-KISAN and other cash-transfer schemes, to techniques based on land ownership rights, online records, and OTP-based confirmation.
Because agricultural techniques are implemented through OTP-based systems, tenant farmers are unable to get agricultural sources and occasionally are unable to buy the crops under their own names.
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Leaders at the conference criticized the original BRS state for halting the 2017 Act’s implementation, calling it a grave injustice to renter farmers. Additionally, they claimed that it was unfair to put the Rythu Bandhu scheme into practice primarily for landowners as opposed to the farmers who truly cultivate the land and the client farmers.
Additionally, they urged the government to honor the promises made by Revanth Reddy, the then-president of the Congress, in his 2023 available letter to client producers as well as the commitment made in the statement.
SOURCE : SIASAT
