Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Civil Provides Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on the launching the nation’s first scheme to distribute fantastic rice (sanna biyyam) freed from price to the poor via ration outlets.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy mentioned Telangana’s farmers have raised the highest-ever paddy crop overcoming the threats of the earlier BRS authorities that ‘rising paddy equates to hanging one’s self to loss of life’ and now they have been a part of a historic event of feeding free fantastic rice to over three crore inhabitants.

“It is a tribute to the farmers,” he mentioned, including that the fantastic rice scheme displays the dedication of the Congress authorities in the direction of individuals’s welfare. He was talking after launching the nation’s first scheme to distribute fantastic rice (sanna biyyam) at freed from price to the poor via ration outlets, in Huzurnagar on Sunday.

He took a jibe at former Chief Minister Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), saying the concept of giving fantastic rice to the poor by no means crossed his thoughts and he had threatened the farmers rising paddy. In distinction the Congress had rewarded the paddy farmers paying ₹1,199 crore in bonus to 4.41 lakh farmers through the newest procurement to provide free fantastic rice to thousands and thousands. He mentioned the scheme was right here to remain and no authorities in future would dare to cease it.

Mr. Reddy recalled how late CM Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy began rice at ₹1.90 per Kg and later N T Rama Rao who modified the scene providing at ₹2 per kilo taking it to nook and nook of the State, he mentioned Congress authorities now has rewritten historical past with free fantastic rice to three.10 crore individuals.

Earlier, the coarse rice (thick and fats selection) provided via the ration outlets went into the black market as individuals didn’t devour it. Earlier individuals bought ration rice for ₹10 per kg and the millers recycled it to promote it again at ₹50. The CM famous that Telangana produces round 12 lakh tonnes of fantastic paddy, with Nalgonda district contributing 8 lakh tonnes.

Civil Provides Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy mentioned 80 to 90% of ration rice was diverted resulting from its poor high quality and the fantastic rice scheme could be a “sport changer in India’s meals safety panorama.”

Detailing the broader reforms within the PDS underneath the Congress authorities, he mentioned at Telangana’s formation, the state had 89.73 lakh ration playing cards, and through the 10-year BRS rule, solely 49,479 new playing cards have been issued. Now with the brand new playing cards being issued the quantity will rise to 1 crore playing cards protecting 3.10 crore beneficiaries.

The newly issued ration playing cards will likely be bodily, QR-code-enabled playing cards, though they won’t embody digital chips. There will likely be two sorts of colour-coded playing cards: – Tricolour playing cards for Beneath Poverty Line (BPL) households and Inexperienced playing cards for Above Poverty Line (APL) households.