If you're wondering how best your tax money is spent, then you should look at how Telangana's Rythu Bandhu Scheme works. The state government decided that it will give Rs4,000 per acre as investment incentive to all farm owners. The biggest benefit would be farm mechanization by small landowners who otherwise may not have opted for machanisation. So far so good.
Here is the interesting thing: the incentive per acre is given to all farmers irrespective of how much land is owned, or whether he is actually tilling the land.
So a farmer with 200 acres of land, will pocket Rs 8 lakh of public money (money that you and me pay as tax), and in all probability, he is filthy rich and is not even tilling the land.
Anyone with any semblance of knowledge of rural economy will say there are a vast number of tenant farmers (people who don't own the land, but they till and share a portion of the product with the landlord). Telengana government in its infinite wisdom decided not to include them in this scheme.And this scheme will cost Rs12,000 crore per year.
In summary, the scheme will benefit some (small farmers towards mechanization), but like diesel subsidy, the rich and undeserved will gain much whereas the tenant farmers will be left out.
Feel disgusted that a state government is wasting so much money when it could have been better designed.
Here is the interesting thing: the incentive per acre is given to all farmers irrespective of how much land is owned, or whether he is actually tilling the land.
So a farmer with 200 acres of land, will pocket Rs 8 lakh of public money (money that you and me pay as tax), and in all probability, he is filthy rich and is not even tilling the land.
Anyone with any semblance of knowledge of rural economy will say there are a vast number of tenant farmers (people who don't own the land, but they till and share a portion of the product with the landlord). Telengana government in its infinite wisdom decided not to include them in this scheme.And this scheme will cost Rs12,000 crore per year.
In summary, the scheme will benefit some (small farmers towards mechanization), but like diesel subsidy, the rich and undeserved will gain much whereas the tenant farmers will be left out.
Feel disgusted that a state government is wasting so much money when it could have been better designed.
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