Budget 2021: What will farmers get?
Union Budget 2021: It is anticipated that the government may roll out its ambitious DBT for fertiliser, offering direct subsidy transfer into the accounts of farmers. Timely release of the additional allocation for the fertiliser will enable clearance of the subsidy backlog
Mansi Jaswal | February 1, 2021 | Updated 08:10 IST
Budget 2021: According to the rating agency ICRA, the government could allocate funds towards the agricultural chain to improve productivity and reduce post-harvest losses
Amid the prolonged farmers protest, where farm unions have demanded a separate Act on MSP and the withdrawal of three agri laws, it is therefore expected the Centre will keep a special focus on the agricultural economy in this year s Budget. It must be noted that when India s GDP shrank by 23.9 per cent in the June quarter of FY21, only the agricultural sector emerged as a silver lining registering a 3.4 per cent growth.
Highlights
Government aims to provide concessional credit to farmers through Kisan Credit Card.
Finance Minister on 15 May 2020 has announced to cover 2.5 crore new farmers under the KCC scheme.
This will provide an additional liquidity of Rs.5 lakh crore in the hands of farmers, who are suffering from the recent downturn of economy.
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government had recently released the seventh instalment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme, while for nearly 12 lakh beneficiaries of Uttar Pradesh, the state government is going to issue Kisan credit card to them.
A Zeebiz report said that the Uttar Pradesh government has already prepared Kisan Credit Card for 1.53 crore farmers of the total 2.43 crore beneficiaries, while nearly 90 lakh farmers have been lined up for KYC application. The beneficiaries of the PM-Kisan scheme can also apply for issuing of Kisan Credit card by completing the KYC formalities.
PM Kisan Yojana: Farmers will get free Kisan Credit Card, here s how to apply
Since February 2020, the Union Government has been running a special drive to provide Kisan Credit Cards to farmers availing of the PM Kisan Yojana. Representative image
Updated: Jan 27, 2021, 04:10 PM IST
The seventh installment of PM Kisan Yojana has been released recently. and the Union government could also increase the amount of Kisan Samman Fund to farmers annually in the Union Budget 2021-22. A few days ago, the government had linked the Kisan Credit Card Scheme to PM Kisan Yojana. Almost 1. 5 crore farmers were given the Kisan Credit Cards. Since February 2020, the Union Government has been running a special drive to provide Kisan Credit Cards to farmers availing of the PM Kisan Yojana.
NASA to launch world s lightest satellite built by 19-yr-old Indian student Riyasdeen
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December 30, 2020
Dec 30: Two years of hard work by 19-year-old S Riyasdeen has finally borne fruit. The second-year mechatronics engineering student has built the world s lightest FEMTO satellite weighing just 33 grams, which will be launched by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in 2021.
Riyasdeen, a student of the SASTRA Deemed University in Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, won the Cubes in Space global design competition conducted by NASA. The 37-mm technology-experimental satellites - VISION SAT V1 and V2 designed by him weigh just 33 grams and are the world s lightest FEMTO satellites.
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