Telangana Farmer Unions Demand Tenant Rights in ROR Draft Bill Revision
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: Farmer unions, while welcoming several provisions of the Record of Rights draft Bill, pointed out to the lack of recognition of tenant farmers' rights. The unions opine that this section is needed to identify tenant farmers in order to help them avail institutional loans, provide crop insurance, procure seeds and other inputs on subsidy. According to the farmer unions Section 10 of the 2024 draft Bill, which says the pattadar passbook-cum-title deed issued under the ROR Act 2020 shall be deemed valid under Sub-Section 17 of Section 2, thereby denying tenant farmers a separate passbook, which was issued to them before the BRS government changed the rule. According to farmer unions, the best template for identifying tenant farmers was the Licensed Cultivators Act, 2011 under which gram sabhas could identify them.
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