Stopping of subsidy hit poor

Ambakanti Rajeshwar of Kupti( K)

Stopping supply of subsidy rice to the children under Telangana Food Security Cards (TFSC) by the state government hit the poor families in the district.  Supply of subsidy rice stopped to nearly 3.000 children in May, 2015 in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

Officials concerned have failed to restore the supply of rice to many children even today after stopping subsidy rice to the children even after repeated appeals by card holders.

The state government’s move thrown cold water on the happiness over increased rice quota to each family and revoked restriction on number of family members eligible for the subsidy rice.         

Many FSC holders have been running from pillar to post for long time for restoration of ration to their children. The state government has revoked the restriction on number of family members eligible for Rs 1 kg rice and the quantity increased to 6v kg to each member included in the ration card.

Three months after issuing FSC to BPL families, the civil supply department staff started stopping 6 kg rice to the children without prior information to the families. Card holders ran pillar to post on the issue but nothing has yielded positive. Revenue officials say that they were restoring the names of the children in the list of eligible family members for subsidy rice.

Ambakanti Rajeshwar of Kupti (K) village in Neredigonda said ‘in starting months they got 18 kg subsidized rice each member 6 kg with their Food Security Card issued by the state government but later 6kg rice was stopped to his daughter Rishika,5, who was a family member and her name was included in the card’. ‘The revenue officials have failed to restore the supply of Rs 6 kg rice to her daughter even after many appeals’, he lamented.

TS to regularise encroached lands

The state government which is reportedly facing financial crisis has intensified regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 eyeing on creation of revenue to fill its coffer.

The government has pinned a lot of hopes on revenue generation through regularization of encroached government lands under GO: 59 but has failed to generate revenue expected till now.        

It is said that state government is making serious efforts to increase its revenue from various sources to meet its requirements and allocations.

The applicants are paying remaining amount to regularize their lands under Government order: 59. Revenue officials are checking measurements of the lands of the house owners for which they applied for regularization.

All ready applicants have paid first installment for regularization of their lands. Revenue department will issue pattas soon to the lands after regularization..

B. Venkatesh of Shantinagar in Adilabad town said revenue officials marking rounds of  applicant’s houses who applied for regularization of land and asking them to pay the remaining amount to get regularized their encroached government land’.

He said ‘revenue officials offered five percent concession in the total amount for onetime payment of total amount’.

The state government has issued GO: 58 and 59 with regard to regularization of encroached government lands. The GO: 58 meant for regularization of encroached government land free of cost if it was bellow 125 square yards for the families of bellow poverty line (BPL).

Adilabad Tahsildar A. Subhash Chander said they were conducting an inquiry into the 454 applications they received for regularization of lands in Adilabad mandal rural and urban and added that they have formed eight teams with land surveyor and Deputy Tahsildars. He said pattas will be issued to the lands of eligible applicants after scrutiny.

The Adilabad mandal revenue officials have received above 3,900 applications seeking the regularization of the lands free of cost for BPL families and revenue officials claimed that they had issued pattas to the lands of BPL under land regularization as per the GO.

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