Rythu Bandhu portal functioning reviewed

Ahead of the launch of Rythu Bandhu Agriculture Investment Support Scheme, the Agriculture Department has reviewed the progress made on Rythu Bandhu Portal being developed by National Informatics Centre.

Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation Department, C. Parthasarathi said in the review meeting here on Friday that the web portal would provide dashboards and various analytical reports for the Chief Minister’s Office, Finance and Agriculture Ministers and Principal Secretaries of Agriculture and Finance departments to monitor the distribution of pattadar passbooks and cheques to the farmers.

The district collectors and other district officers would be provided with the district, mandal and village level farmers’ data. Mandal level officers would get mandal level and village level information of farmers such as their name, father’s name, address, pattadar passbook ID, survey number-wise extent, cheque number, name of the bank that issued the cheque and the amount to be given to the farmer.

Mr. Parthasarathi said that user IDs would be provided to all the officials including bankers to access the information provided in the web portal. Additional Director of Agriculture K. Vijay Kumar, NIC Technical Director N. Suresh Kumar and other officials from Agriculture Department and NIC attended the meeting.