Tenant farmers shut out: 15 years on_ 9 out of 10 still excluded from Telangana’s welfare net (original) (raw)

Hyderabad: Fifteen years after Telangana passed a landmark law to recognise tenant farmers, the vast majority remain invisible to the state’s welfare machinery. Despite cultivating more than a third of the state’s farmland, nine out of ten tenant farmers are still excluded from formal support systems—raising urgent questions...read full story

"Both the central and state govts provide benefits for landowners, but all that money goes to them and not to the tenant farmers who are toiling for their livelihood,"