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Roopa Madhav and Marlese von Broembsen, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Informal Workers, Social Audits and Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains , 4 February 2021
.Due diligence responsibility has been guided by voluntary âsoft lawâ but the shift to mandatory due diligence legislation is now underway. If the EU is serious about addressing the violation of supply chain workersâ human rights, legislation will have to ensure that procurement and production practices become gender-sensitive, with freedom of association and collective bargaining forming its backbone. The human and labour rights of all workers in all tiers of supply chains, including homeworkers, must be taken into account and workers need to participate in the design of grievance mechanisms.Â
Ineligible PM-KISAN beneficiaries received Rs 2,327 crore: Agri Minister
On measures being taken to remove the loopholes, Tomar stated that the scheme has been integrated with the income tax database so that income-tax payees don t receive the benefits
BusinessToday.In | February 11, 2021 | Updated 23:01 IST
Almost 33 lakh ineligible beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme received Rs 2,326.88 crore, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in Rajya Sabha.
Instances of credentials of block and district officials being misused to approve the applications of ineligible farmers under PM-KISAN were also reported, he informed the Upper House.
Tomar stated that some amount has been recovered from some of the ineligible beneficiaries, while FIRs have been lodged against others in some states.
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Rs 2,326 Crore Transferred to Ineligible Beneficiaries Under PM-KISAN; States Probing: Tomar
Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar gestures as he addresses a press conference in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), the government provides income support to farmers by transferring annually Rs 6,000 in three equal instalments to eligible farmers directly into their bank accounts.
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More than Rs 2,326 crore has been transferred to 32.91 lakh ineligible beneficiaries, including income tax payees, under the PM-KISAN scheme and state governments have registered cases against them, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Friday. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), the government provides income support to farmers by transferring annually Rs 6,000 in three equal instalments to eligible farmers directly into their bank accounts.
More than Rs 2,326 crore has been transferred to 32.91 lakh ineligible beneficiaries, including income tax payees, under the PM-KISAN scheme and state governments have registered cases against them, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Friday. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), the government provides income support to farmers by transferring annually Rs 6,000 in three equal instalments to eligible farmers directly into their bank accounts. Tomar said the structure of the scheme inherently comprises of mechanism for exclusion of errors on the basis of continuous verification and validation of data of beneficiaries by various authorities. However, during the verification process, it was found that an amount of Rs 2,326.88 crore was transferred to 32,91,152 ineligible beneficiaries, including income tax payees, Tomar said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.