Sircilla’s ₹60 crore question awaits a ledger
KTR says weavers are still owed ₹60 crore. Earlier records show large payments, but no public document in the material reviewed confirms the current balance.
The current, category-wise statement remains unavailable.
Sircilla’s weavers are still waiting for something more useful than another political assurance: a ledger.
BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao has alleged that ₹60 crore remains unpaid out of ₹300 crore owed to the town’s weavers, and has sought a payment schedule from the Congress government in Telangana. Reports of his open letter say the government claims all old dues were cleared. The ₹60 crore figure, however, is currently documented only as KTR’s allegation, not as an independently verified government balance.
There is no shortage of evidence that the problem was real. In April 2024, the government released ₹50 crore against ₹351 crore in pending Bathukamma-saree payments. A later report recorded ₹222.39 crore released for Bathukamma dues, ₹157.46 crore for other government orders and ₹6.32 crore in yarn subsidy. Sircilla also received fresh orders, including a women’s self-help-group saree programme.
What is missing is the boring document that would settle the argument: a current, category-wise statement showing who is owed what, under which order, and what has been paid. The Congress government has not yet put that calculation on the table. Until it does, ₹60 crore remains a political claim—and the ledger remains the more useful speech.