rythubandhu.telangana.gov.in : Rythu Bandhu Agriculture Investment Support Scheme

Organisation : Government of Telangana
Facility Name : Rythu Bandhu Agriculture Investment Support Scheme
Applicable For : Farmers
Applicable State/UT : Telangana
Website : http://rythubandhu.telangana.gov.in/Default.aspx

What is Telangana Rythu Bandhu Agriculture Investment Support Scheme?

Investment is the surest way to enhance agriculture productivity and also income to the farmers, besides breaking the vicious cycle of rural indebtedness.  In order to ensure that the farmers do not fall again in to the debt trap, a new scheme called “Agriculture Investment Support Scheme” is proposed to be implemented from the year 2018-19 Kharif season onwards to take care of initial investment needs of every farmer.

Related / Similar Facility : Rythu Bima Farmer’s Insurance Scheme

A budget of Rs.12,000 Crores has been provided for the financial year 2018-19 by Government of Telangana. Relieving the Farmers from debt burden and not allowing them to fall in the debt trap again, Rythu Bandhu Scheme is proposed by Government of Telangana for providing Investment Support Agriculture and Horticulture crops by way of grant of Rs. 5,000/- per acre per farmer each season for purchase of inputs like Seeds, Fertilizers, Pesticides, Labour and other investments in the field operations of Farmer’s choice for the crop season.

Guidelines For Rythu Bandhu Agriculture Investment Support Implementation

** The Commissioner of Agriculture has to obtain the required data in a secured format (basic details being not amenable for editing) from Chief Commissioner of Land Administration and work out the beneficiary-wise amounts with the help of NIC through development of separate MIS portal.
** The SLBC will furnish the format and other technical details for transmitting the data in a secured format.
** The Commissioner of Agriculture, with the help of NIC, will furnish the data in the prescribed secured format to the banks by extracting the information from the LRUP data base.
** The Banks should ensure security of the data provided to them. It shall be responsibility of the Banks to ensure that the payee details and amounts printed on Cheques as per the data made available to them.
** The Banks shall provide MIS as required by the Commissioner & Director of Agriculture. The Banks shall furnish the data, farmer-wise, along with Cheque numbers at the time of handing over cheques to the C&DA.
** The SLBC has proposed (6) Nationalized banks and (2) Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) for implementing the scheme.
** The cost of printing of cheques and service charges payable to Banks shall be decided by the SLBC.

The following will be printed on the cheque:
(1) Name of the Scheme “Rhythu Bandhu”,
(2) Name of the Pattadar along with Pattadar Passbook Number
(3) Name of the Revenue Village, Mandal and District
(4) Amount and
(5) Specimen Signature of Commissioner & Director of Agriculture.

The Cheques will pre-printed by the Banks in the given time frame The cheque is neither an account payee nor bearer cheque. It will be in the form of “Order cheque”. The farmer has freedom to encash it in any branch of that bank in the entire state, duly producing the ID proof like Pattadar Pass Book or Aadhar Card.

The Revenue Department is responsible for the veracity of the Farmers’ data (LRUP) and MAOs are responsible for organization of entire cheque distribution programme in their concerned Mandals with the help of Tahsildars, including proper documentation, considering the requirements of subsequent Audit teams under the supervision of DAOs and ADAs.

In addition to six nationalized banks, some of the branches of APGVB and TSGB will also participate in disbursement amounts through cheques to farmers on behalf of SBI in order to have better coverage of villages and for quicker distribution. Mandals will be allotted to these two Banks also.

If the beneficiary amount equals and exceeds an amount of Rs. 50,000/-, two cheques have to be prepared and accordingly number of instruments have to be calculated. (Single cheque up to an amount of Rs. 49,990/-only).

The Commissioner of Agriculture should communicate the approved specimen signature in the digital format, to be printed on the instruments/cheques, to SLBC and Nodal Banks to enable banks to print cheques as per the approved specimen.

Contact

Agriculture Commissioner & Director Address
Ground Floor, D-block
Fathe Midan,
Basheer Bagh
Near Nizam College Basheer Bagh
Hyderabad
Telangana 500001

Call : 040 2338 3520