Need To Ask The CM Or The Chief Whip For Water!

07 Mar 2017 7:47 PM

Amaravathi: MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy commented that there was no proper water facility in the new AP assembly building and the members were being asked to contact the CM or the chief whip for water. Speaking to the media at the assembly media point, he mentioned there was no attender to offer drinking water even to the leader of opposition who was thirsty. If they wanted to get water from outside, they had not been allowed by the chief whip, he said.

He slammed the way things were being conducted at the new facility.

Can't you see the suffering of sugarcane farmers?

MLA Chevireddy asked if increase in GDP meant not paying compensation to sugarcane farmers and how the Government could not see the difficulties of the farmers. He mentioned how 89,000 tons of sugarcane had been taken from farmers of Gajulamanyam in Chittoor district in 2014015 but compensation of Rs.13.5 crore had never been paid by the Government to 3500 farmers.

He also mentioned that the sugarcane factory had later been shut down, depriving 270 employees of their livelihood and that their salaries of worth Rs.4.5 crore also had been evaded, besides retirement and pension benefits.

Stating that 2.5-3 lakh tons of sugarcane was being crushed every year in Chittoor sugar factory, Chevireddy revealed that salaries had not been paid to workers for the past 33 months even there and now they amounted to Rs.38 crore.

Chevireddy demanded that the Government should pay the farmers their compensation.