# Elderly farmer touches PACS staffer’s feet for urea in Medak 2026-08-12T17:27:52+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Boyini Ramulu (62), a paddy farmer from Chitkul in Telangana's Medak district, touched the feet of a Primary Agriculture Society (PACS) staffer at Rangampet on Wednesday, begging for two bags of urea. He could not book the fertiliser online because he does not own a smartphone and no one in his family is educated enough to use the mobile app. He even offered to pay Rs 900 per bag, three times the maximum retail price of about Rs 300, but the video of his plea went viral. Other farmers in the erstwhile Medak district staged a rasta-roko at Polampally on the same day, demanding that the Congress government scrap the online booking system and sell urea manually. Traffic was blocked for over an hour until police assured them the issue would be raised with senior officials. The incident has exposed the gap between digital initiatives and the ground reality for India's most vulnerable cultivators. ## Coverage - telanganatoday.com Tags: digital divide, Farmers’ protest, Medak, PACS, Telangana, urea shortage Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/elderly-farmer-touches-pacs-staffers-feet-for-urea-in-medak/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/elderly-farmer-touches-pacs-staffers-feet-for-urea-in-medak/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.