Take steps to ensure irrigation of canal suburban lands

 

 - Take steps to ensure irrigation of canal suburban lands

 - We will solve all the problems of the farmers in Spandana

 - Minister of State for Civil Supplies Kodali Nani

 Gudivada, Aug 4 (prajaamaravati): State Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Kodali Srivenkateswara Rao (Nani) has directed the state government to take steps to provide irrigated land to farmers' villages in consultation with farmers so that irrigated lands in the suburbs can also be irrigated.  Several farmers handed over petitions to Minister Kodali Nani and District Collector J. Nivas on resolving various issues as part of a Rytu Spandana program organized at the Agriculture Department AD office in Gudivada town of Krishna district on Wednesday.  Erneni Rajendra Prasad, a resident of Bommuluru village in Gudivada rural mandal, said that the Komaravolu drain was not releasing irrigation water in full, which was not irrigating the suburban lands under Bommuluru, Nuzella and Komaravolu strategic areas.  Farmers irrigated through the Pol Raj Canal to the villages of Komatigunta, Kavuthara and downstream areas through the Rivas canal in the Gudlavalleru mandal are facing difficulties.  Farmer Penneru Prabhakar demanded that the level gauge be increased to 250.  Atluri Seshagiri Rao, a farmer from Bommuluru village in Gudivada rural mandal, said in his application that he had given 28 cents of land to the Gudivada-Machilipatnam railway doubling line for which he had received Rs.  Only Rs 31 lakh was received and the remaining arrears were also sought to be released.  Sitaramaraj, a farmer from Ramanapudi in Gudivada Rural Mandal, said he wanted to get a Pattadaru pass book for the land he inherited from his grandfather.  Several Bommuluru farmers said that lands were given in the land acquisition at National Highway 65 at Bommuluru and only some of them were compensated and the rest of the farmers were also asked to provide compensation.  Shankara Rao, a farmer from Gudivada, said that there was no irrigation for farmers within two kilometers of the suburban lands under the lunar drains and that the canals should be dredged.  Bommuluru village farmer Gutta Azad said the crop was completely damaged by last year's rains and no insurance had been filed so far.  Later, Minister Kodali Nani said that all measures are being taken to ensure proper irrigation of canals.  It is suggested that excavation work be carried out where necessary.  Proposals for insurance claims have been sent to the government for farmers whose crops were damaged due to rains last year.  Minister Kodali Nani said the compensation would be given to the farmers as soon as the claims were sanctioned by the government.  YCP state leader Dukkipati Sashibhushan, Agricultural Market Yard chairman Mondru Sunita, YCP leaders Paladugu Ramprasad, Peyyala Adam, Matta John Victor, Mallipudi Srinivasa Chakravarti, Mondru Venkateswara Rao, Agriculture Advisory Council Gudivada Rural Mandal President Mekala Satyanarayana and Nandivada Mandal President Kondapalli Kumar Reddy were present on the occasion. Several officials of the Department of Agriculture, Irrigation, etc. participated.