Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) will degree protests around the state on Friday towards the verdict of the BJP-led executive on the Centre to recuperate Rs 151 crore from the Telangana state executive for establishing platforms to dry paddy in villages beneath the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Ensure Scheme (MGNREGA)

BRS operating president Okay.T. Rama Rao referred to as on farmers to protest in huge numbers at the district headquarters cities around the state on Thursday, calling the Centre’s realize to the state executive soliciting for the go back of Rs 152 crore “vengeful.” He claimed that the BJP executive used to be wearing out a “malicious and incorrect information” marketing campaign alleging that the state executive used to be diverting budget launched for MGNREGA works.

He wondered the Central executive’s rationale in claiming that the MGNREGA budget have been diverted for the development of paddy-drying platforms after they have been supposed for a farmer-assistance scheme, and requested why the BJP had allowed states with coastlines to construct fish-drying platforms however adversarial the development of paddy-drying platforms.

The minister additionally reminded the Centre that the Telangana executive and the BRS had written to it to permit agricultural paintings beneath the MGNREGA. “Our CM wrote to the Centre inquiring for that agriculture works be accredited beneath MGNREGA. The Centre didn’t heed Telangana’s request in spite of bringing the problem to its realize. The development of agri-produce drying platforms beneath MNREGA advantages the farmers,” he stated. The Centre used to be hell-bent on maligning and conniving towards the Telangana executive, oblivious of the advantages such initiatives deliver to farmers, he famous.

Rama Rao said that a number of requests submitted to the Centre by means of the Telangana executive and the BRS to combine agriculture and allied sectors with the MGNREGA have been dismissed. He said that the Centre lowered budget allocated to the scheme and enforced other stipulations at a time when employment potentialities had reduced following Covid-19 pandemic and the agricultural economic system used to be beneath misery.

He said that the Modi executive on the Centre had blocked the Telangana executive from establishing 79,000 extra drying platforms with Rs 750 crore, whilst additionally challenging that agriculture and allied works be incorporated within the Employment Ensure Scheme, claiming that this type of transfer would receive advantages farmers as a result of emerging fertiliser and gas costs had raised the price of farming funding.

The Centre, in respond to a query within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, had stated that establishing the platforms to dry paddy used to be no longer permissible beneath Agenda I of the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Ensure Act.

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