Telangana Agriculture department warns farmers against fake Rythu bharosa SMS messages

Hyderabad: The Telangana Agriculture Department has clarified that SMS messages claiming that Rythu Bharosa funds have been released are fake and unauthorised. The department has urged farmers not to believe such messages, which were reportedly received by farmers in some districts on Wednesday.

According to the officials, it came to know that messages related to the Rythu Bharosa scheme had been delivered to approximately 2,73,128 farmers. Following discussions with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the messages were found to be completely false and baseless.