Amaravati, May 5 -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Monday instructed officials to ensure that ex gratia payments are disbursed by Tuesday evening to farmers who suffered crop losses due to the recent untimely rains, according to an official release.

Chairing a high-level review meeting at the State Secretariat with the officials of Agriculture and Disaster Management on the incessant rains that lashed the state for two days, the Chief Minister asked the officials to assess the crop damage immediately and see to it that every farmer who suffered crop loss should get the ex gratia from the state government.

According to an official press release, CM Naidu also made it clear that the eight families of those who died due...