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Time of India
03-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
None to help, farmers raise funds to lay road to rain-hit fields
Hyderabad: With neither officials nor politicians hearing their pleas to lay an approach road to access their fields during rains, farmers of Tekmal village in Medak district have now decided to do it on their own. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The farmers took up the work a few months ago after collecting about Rs 8 lakh. "There is still more work to be done. The govt should realise that the approach road is a necessity for us and come forward to complete it," said Baja Kistaiah, a 60-year-old farmer. There are nearly100 families in the village and over 20 families are affected as their fields spread over 25 acres, which is on the other side of the Gunduvagu stream, becomes inaccessible during rains. Tractors and harvesters get stuck in the mud and even labourers are unwilling to work due to lack of a proper approach road, farmers said. Paddy and cotton is cultivated here. The farmers said that they sourced the material including sand, cement, gravel and cement pipes with the money collected and began the work. The approach road about 50 feet and is being laid by using reinforced cement concrete pipes, they said. The culvert over Gunduvagu will facilitate the water from the stream to flow through the cement pipes when it rains, allowing farmers to easily access their fields. The entire work would take about Rs 10 lakh more. Kistaiah said that not all farmers from the affected families have been able to contribute. "It is not right to pressure them, but they have all agreed to do it. Since we did not want the work to get delayed, we started it," he said.
The Hindu
18-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
KCR extends financial assistance to Telangana martyr's family
HYDERABAD Founder-president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao extended financial assistance for the postgraduate education in medicine to the daughter of police constable Kistaiah, a martyr, who ended his life in support of the Statehood movement to Telangana. Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao vowed to take care of the family immediately after Mr. Kistaiah's sacrifice during the Statehood movement. Accordingly, he has extended financial assistance for the medical education (MBBS) of Kistaiah's daughter Priyanka as the girl had expressed her willingness to pursue medical course initially. The immediate family members of Mr. Kistaiah — his wife, daughter Priyanka and son Rahul — met Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao at his Erravelly farmhouse on Sunday. After enquiring about the family's well-being, Mr. Rao handed over financial assistance to Ms. Priyanka on Sunday. Mr. Rao expressed his happiness and extended his best wishes when Mr. Kistaiah's wife shared information that her son's marriage was also fixed recently. He assured the family that his support would always be there.
