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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has appealed to the Centre to reconsider its decision directing the State governments not to impose any levy on rice from millers with effect from October this year.
The Chief Minister writes to the Centre, asking it to reconsider its decision not to impose levy on millers
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has appealed to the Centre to reconsider its decision directing the State governments not to impose any levy on rice from millers with effect from October this year.
He wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this connection on Thursday. Rao suggested that existing 25 percent levy on rice be continued with a view to safeguard the interests of farmers to get remunerative prices for certain special varieties and at certain periods when the millers have good market outside the State or the country as the case may be. This is his second letter to the Prime Minister on this issue. He earlier wrote a letter in September last when Centre cut down the percentage of levy on rice from 75 to 25 percent from kharif marketing season. From October 2015, this 25 percent levy on rice will also be stopped and in this context Rao wrote the letter to Modi once again. Rao, in his letter, stressed that Telangana was primarily a paddy producing State and the practice had been that normally the millers purchased paddy from farmers competing with each other at remunerative rates. He also said as long as the millers paid them the remunerative prices (over and above the MSP), they would not offer the same to the government agencies at MSP.
Only when they are offered less than MSP, they choose to deliver paddy at purchase centres opened by government agencies.
Rao said Telangana government was strictly monitoring whether the millers were paying MSP to the farmers before they delivered rice under levy. He pointed out that with the decision to remove the levy system, it was possible that the millers might not offer remunerative prices, as they normally did.
Government agencies could assure the farmers only MSP and not remunerative prices, he said in the letter. “This may cause hardship to farmers as removal of levy will deny them the remunerative prices," he said.
