Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Telangana state government and its authorities concerned directing them to place the details of the Rythu Bandhu Scheme.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice V. Ramasubramanian was dealing with a PIL by V. Kiran Kumar and another seeking to declare the action of the respondents in confining the benefits under the scheme only to landowners and not taking steps for the issuance of the Loan Eligibility Card while depriving the agriculture investment support to the actual farmers who cultivate the land as illegal.
The petitioner urged the court to direct the the respondent authorities to extend the agriculture investment support under the Rythu Bandhu Scheme to the actual cultivators as per the Telangana Land Licensed Cultivators Act 2011, Act 18 of 2011 and rules therein. While issuing notices to the respondents, the bench granted three weeks time to them to file their counter-affidavits.
