Sent names of two.5 lakh Bengal farmers for PM Kisan scheme, however not paid but: Mamata

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the TMC dispensation for not implementing central schemes in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated on Monday her authorities has despatched names of two.5 lakh farmers to the Centre for inclusion in PM-Kisan scheme however they had been but to get any profit. She sought to know why the Union authorities has but not disbursed any money profit to those eligible beneficiaries below the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna.
Speaking within the legislative meeting, Banerjee stated the state authorities had obtained an inventory of six lakh candidates from the centre for verification for inclusion within the programme, out of which 2.5 lakh names have been despatched to them for monetary help below the central welfare programme.
After saying no to PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme for greater than a 12 months, the West Bengal chief minister had final month softened her authorities’s stand and agreed to implement the challenge within the state. She had rebuffed the important thing central authorities farmers programme launched on February 24, 2019, opposing direct money profit and as a substitute insisted to route the funds by way of the state authorities for disbursal among the many farmers.
The BJP leaders have mocked Banerjee’s change of coronary heart to her concern of loosing farmers votes within the upcoming state elections.
In the backdrop of ongoing farm agitation in opposition to the three new agri legal guidelines, the famers challenge is rising as a dominant narrative within the Bengal polls anticipated to happen in April-May this 12 months.
Banerjee was responding to questions raised by the members of the meeting throughout a debate on a vote-on-account that she had introduced on February 5. With the state elections not far away, Banerjee had introduced a vote-on-account for Rs 2.99 lakh crore within the meeting and made a slew of bulletins, together with a hike within the annual support of farmers.
The chief minister has elevated the annual monetary help, below the state authorities’s ‘Krishak Bandhu’ scheme to Rs 6,000 from Rs 5,000 retaining in thoughts the curiosity of farmers. She stated that advantages of the central scheme must also be made accessible to the sharecroppers, together with assist offered by the state to all cultivators, regardless of their landholdings.
Under the PM Kisan scheme, Rs 6,000 per 12 months in three equal instalments is offered to small and marginal farmer households having a mixed landholding of as much as two hectares.
Addressing a rally in Haldia on Sunday, the prime minister had assailed the state authorities for not implementing central schemes like Ayushman Bharat and PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. He had asserted that when the BJP types its authorities within the state, it can take steps to implement all such stalled programmes on the very first cabinet assembly.
Banerjee additionally stated that her authorities would float 19 industrial initiatives within the state, entailing an funding of Rs 72,200 crore, and create 3.29 lakh employment alternatives.