Vellore: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) if elected to power, will make a separate budget for agriculture, every year by inviting various associations of farmers, said PMK’s Chief Ministerial candidate and Dharmapuri MP Dr Anbumani Ramadoss at the party’s Northern Region conference held at the Pallikonda open-ground Sunday.
He said the PMK was keen on introducing modernisation in agriculture and also organic farming. He said that the party would fix fair price of Rs 4000 to Rs 5000 for the procurement of sugarcane. With the bye-products obtained from sugarcane, one could derive ethanol, which could be used to run motors and transport systems. Paddy procurement price will also be increased.
Deploring the education system that had been deteriorating in the state, he pointed out that in the recent IIT-JEE entrance examination only 33 candidates have passed out from Tamil Nadu.
Dr Anbumani urged the people to give PMK a chance to rule the state at least once and then the people would automatically support it. The state government may claim that there was a revenue of Rs 26,000 crore from the sale of liquor, but at the same time they forgot that there was direct and indirect loss of Rs 1,17,000 crore due to the medical expenses incurred by drunkards, Anbumani said.
Dr Anbumani reiterated that if PMK was voted to power, the first signature would be for implementing the prohibition on the first-day of he assuming office as Chief Minister. He further said his party would take steps to make the river Palar to run with flood waters, since, both the DMK and AIADMK government had failed to save the river.
