Rythu Bandhu Scheme

Telangana leads the way in farmer empowerment with its Rythu Bandhu scheme. It is the first ever farmer investment support scheme in India .

Key features of the scheme:

• Rs 8000 per acre grant to all Telangana farmers every year (Rs 4000 per crop season).
• Rs 12000 crores budget allocated for the scheme (financial year 2018-19).
• 58 lakh farmers in the state to benefit.

The scheme was announced by the Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekhar Rao at Farmers Coordiantion Committee(Rythu Samanvaya Samithi) conference at Jayashankar Agriculture University on 25 February 2018.An allocation of ₹12,000 crores was made in 2018-19 state budget.

The scheme offers a financial help of ₹8,000 per year to each farmer (two crops). There is no cap on the number of acres, and most of the farmers are small and marginal. The total farming land is 1.43 crore acres and the number of farmers in the state stood at 58.33 lakh. Around 55% of population in Telangana make a living from agriculture.

New Pattadar Passbook:

Along with the cheque, the government is also giving the new Pattadar Passport, the title deed after an exercise to purify the land records was done by the government. The new passbook is highly secure with 17 tamper-proof security features, and a land bank website, Dharani, to have all land holdings in the state.

Monitoring:

A special dashboard software is being developed by the NIC to monitor the scheme remotely. The sample for the research is selected through random sampling.

Website: http://rythubandhu.telangana.gov.in/

Beneficiary:

Farmers

Benefits:

The Rythu Bandhu scheme is a farmer investment scheme recently launched in Telangana wherein the government gives farmers an incentive of Rs 4,000 for each acre of land as investment for the crop.