Both Centre, state governments ‘cultivating’ farmers

With elections coming closer, farmers are the focus of Union and state governments and both are implementing schemes for their welfare. After the guidelines of the PM Kisan scheme were issued, its portal has been launched in the state. Officials informed that currently on a pilot basis it has been started in Chomu and Amber tehsils. This scheme is the brainchild of the Union government. 

The farmers now will be made aware of this portal through various camps which are being started from February 19- 25 at Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendras.

To provide assured income support to the small and marginal farmers, this scheme was announced in the interim budget tabled in Lok Sabha recently by interim finance minister Piyush Goyal. Landholding farmer families, having cultivable land upto 2 hectares, will be provided direct income support at the rate of Rs 6,000 per year. 

This income support will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of beneficiary farmers, in three equal installments of Rs 2,000 each.

The idea is that PM-Kisan would not only provide assured supplemental income to the most vulnerable farmer families but would also meet their emergent needs, especially before the harvest season.

Meanwhile, more than one lakh farmers have been issued the farm loan waiver certificates by now by the state government. Officials in the department of cooperatives inform that farm loan waiver certificates worth Rs 500 crore have been issued to these farmers.

Every day, loan waiver certificate distribution camps are being held across various districts in the state. Camps in more than 300 Gram Seva Sahkari Samitis are being set up every day. The exercise of giving the certificates was started since last week, just a day before BJP had planned protest against slow implementation of the scheme.

ASSURED INCOME

To provide assured income support to the small and marginal farmers, this scheme was announced in the interim budget by interim finance minister Piyush Goyal. Landholding farmer families, having cultivable land upto 2 hectares, will be provided direct income  support at the rate of Rs6,000 per year. This income support will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of beneficiary farmers, in three equal installments of Rs2,000 each.