Andhra CM announces ~4K additional dole for farmers

AMARAVATI: In another major pre-poll sop, the Andhra Pradesh government here on Wednesday announced annual financial assistance of ~4,000 to every farmer in the state. The cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, approved the new scheme ‘Annadata Sukhibhava’, under which the state government will give ~4,000 assistance in addition to ~6,000 announced by the Centre in the interim budget earlier this month.