According to Geojit, The government has provided financial aid of 2,000 rupees each to around 94.2 mln farmers so far as the third instalment under the Centre s flagship Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, a government official said.
Union Budget 2021: PM-Kisan Yojna amount likely to increase
Amid widespread protests by farmers over three farm bills, the Centre is likely to increase the amount given to farmers under the PM Kisan scheme as part of Union Budget 2021.
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UPDATED: January 27, 2021 20:32 IST
The government has allocated more than half of the Agriculture Ministry s budget to the ambitious income support scheme, in the last budget. (Photo: PTI)
Amid the ongoing farmers’ protest against the three new farm laws, the government may spend more money on farmers through the PM-Kisan cash support scheme. The proposal is likely to be announced in the annual budget, scheduled for February 1. The government wants to send a clear message to the farmers that the income support scheme is the answer for farm distress, a top financial official indicates.
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a farmer revolt with his new farm laws, a general sense of frustration at his policies and failed promises has attracted a wider segment of the poor to the protests at Delhi’s borders.
While the better-off farmers sitting on their tractor trolleys dissected the farm bills and the danger they posed, the landless labourers and daily wage earners gathered at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border with them complained of being duped with the promise of “
achchhe din (good days)” six years ago.
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Sirf dhokha (Nothing but fraud),” said an indignant Khyali Ram, who had come from Ramuwala Ganesh village in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, about Modi’s electoral rhetoric.
Why farmers have rejected govt’s offer on agri laws
Why farmers have rejected govt’s offer on agri laws
Farmers have rejected the central govternment’s offer on agri laws. They have listed out their conditions for resuming talks with the government to end the farm stir.
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UPDATED: December 25, 2020 00:49 IST
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha leaders have hardened their position over the three farm laws in a sharp comeback at the central government. (Photo: PTI)
There is no breakthrough in deadlock between the central government and the protesting farmers over the three agri laws. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a mega interaction event with farmers from six states on Christmas and the Good Governance Day on Friday. He will digitally transfer Rs 18,000 crore to the bank accounts of about 9 crore farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana even as thousands of farmers are bracing chilly winters in Delhi-NCR and other northern states demandin
Mangaluru: Sushasan, Kisan Samman Divas to be observed on Dec 25
Wed, Dec 23 2020 09:30:34 PM
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Dec 23: BJP state unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Wednesday, December 23 said that Bharatiya Janata Party along with Raitha Morcha Karnataka will observe the birthday of Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 25 as Sushasan Divas and Kisan Samman Divas.
Speaking in a press meet here on Wednesday, December 23 at the district BJP office, Nalin Kumar said, On December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release (the first instalment) Rs 18,000 crore directly into bank accounts of 9.5 crore farmers in the country under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.