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  • Narendra Singh Tomar: 10% of funds to ineligible PM-Kisan beneficiaries recovered

    Only 10 p.c of the quantity transferred to ineligible beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) has been recovered thus far, the federal government knowledgeable the Lok Sabha Tuesday.
    According to a written reply by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, thus far, round Rs 2,326.88 crore has been disbursed to beneficiaries who have been discovered ineligible for the scheme, of which Rs 231.76 crore was recovered.
    “During the verification process, if it was found that an amount of Rs 2,326.88 crore was transferred to 40,48,049 ineligible beneficiaries, including income tax payees…” Tomar mentioned.

    “The Union government has issued a Standard Operation Guideline to identify such undeserving beneficiaries and recover the amount from them,” he wrote.
    According to the federal government information, recoveries have been made in 18 states and UTs.

  • Budget 2021: Rural poor, farmers’ progress to be govt’s precedence

    Image Source : PTI Budget 2021: Rural poor, farmers’ progress to be govt’s precedence
    Amid the coronavirus pandemic when the tempo of producing and providers sector got here to a grinding halt, agriculture and allied sectors in India have picked up tempo because the nation noticed the energy of the farm sector.

    The authorities additionally took care of a giant inhabitants of the nation associated to agriculture and farming and enacted new legal guidelines to accentuate the winds of enchancment within the agricultural sector. The Budget 2021-22 goes to be offered in Parliament on Monday, amid wrangling over agricultural reform.

    In such a scenario, it’s anticipated that the Modi authorities, which claims to offer precedence to the progress of villages, the poor and farmers, may also give precedence to agriculture and rural improvement within the upcoming Budget.

    BUDGET 2021: FULL COVERAGE

    According to the Economic Review 2020-21, whereas the trade and providers sectors are projected to fall by 9.6 per cent and eight.8 per cent, respectively, within the present monetary 12 months, the expansion fee of agriculture and allied sectors can stay at 3.4 per cent. The agriculture and allied sectors recorded a development fee of three.4 per cent at fixed costs throughout FY 2020-21 (first advance estimate).

    The Modi authorities’s precedence has been to double the revenue of farmers by 2022 and to develop fundamental amenities in villages together with ‘pucca’ homes for all of the poor within the nation. Therefore, with a view to attaining these objectives, the budgetary allocation of main schemes of agriculture and rural improvement sector may be anticipated to extend within the upcoming Budget.

    A senior official of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare stated that farmers’ consciousness about all of the schemes of agriculture sector together with Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is constantly rising and the advantages of those schemes are starting to be seen on the floor degree.

    The authorities may also concentrate on the scheme to supply short-term agricultural loans to farmers at reasonably priced rates of interest. Other schemes of the agriculture sector, together with the Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme, the Prime Minister Agricultural Irrigation Scheme, will also be given significance on this finances. Agricultural economists level out that together with agriculture, the federal government will give prominence to the plans of the meals processing trade, which can assist in attaining the aim of doubling the revenue of farmers.

    Major schemes for the event of villages proved to be very useful in offering employment alternatives to the employees migrating from the cities in the course of the corona interval. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), along with offering employment to the every day wage labourers within the villages, proved to be essential within the improvement of fundamental infrastructure within the villages, which was referred to as a chance in catastrophe and beneath the self-sufficient India bundle.

    Experts say that within the upcoming Budget additionally, different rural improvement schemes together with MNREGA may be elevated. The budgetary allocation of MNREGA was Rs 61,500 crore in 2020-21, however beneath the self-sufficient bundle within the corona period, an extra allocation of Rs 40,000 crore was made for the scheme.

    Farmers have been agitating for greater than two months on the borders of Delhi to repeal the brand new agricultural legal guidelines and to demand a authorized assure for the acquisition of crops on the minimal assist value (MSP). Agricultural consultants level out that MSP is a giant concern within the farmers’ motion, so some announcement may be anticipated within the Budget relating to MSP as properly.

    Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will current the General Budget of the upcoming monetary 12 months 2021-22 in Parliament on Monday.

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  • Mamata makes an attempt to blunt BJP’s allegation over PM Kisan Scheme, agrees to implement it in Bengal

    Image Source : PTI File picture: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press convention on the state secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.
    BJP nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday stated that the saffron celebration, after voted to energy in West Bengal, will make sure that
    every farmer of the state will get Rs 18,000 in arrears below the PM Kisan scheme. The assertion of Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s West Bengal in-charge, got here days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agreed to implement the central scheme within the state, below which farmers get Rs 6,000 a 12 months in three equal instalments.

    The resolution of the Trinamool Congress supremo, taken months earlier than the meeting election, is being seen as a transfer to blunt the BJP’s accusation that her celebration is stopping farmers of the state from getting advantages of the scheme.

    “Farmers of Bengal will get their due after the Mamata Banerjee government goes and the BJP government comes to power,” Vijayvargiya stated, whereas addressing a celebration rally at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district.

    They can be paid Rs 18,000 every in arrears, the quantity which has already been transferred to the financial institution accounts of farmers in the remainder of the nation, he stated. The mafia controls coal and sand mining within the state and indulges in cattle smuggling, he alleged, asserting that these concerned in such rackets can be pushed out of the state by the BJP.

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    Describing the TMC as a virus, the BJP’s West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh who additionally addressed the rally, stated that his personal celebration is its vaccine which can make the ruling celebration go away the state after May.

    The meeting election within the state is due in April-May. Claiming that the BJP already has 1.5 crore members in West Bengal, Ghosh stated that just about 29,000 instances have been filed in opposition to BJP employees within the state to intimidate them.

    “The previous Left Front and the current TMC dispensation failed to deliver. The BJP will ensure that the state marches ahead in the path of development,” he stated. Ghosh alleged that the cash meant for reduction after cyclone Amphan has been looted and misappropriated by TMC employees and leaders.

    “The parivartan (change) people had hoped for after the TMC came to power proved a mirage and now there’s the need for another parivartan,” he stated. Ministers and leaders of the TMC are leaving the celebration as they aren’t getting due respect and place, the BJP state president claimed.

    “Mamata Banerjee is now accusing us of breaking her party. What had she done to other parties earlier in the state?” he requested, claiming that the TMC had made a number of MLAs of the Congress and Left events be part of the celebration.

    Holding that the anti-land acquisition motion of the TMC at Singur, which led to the shifting of Tata Motors’ Nano automotive plant to Gujarat, was “wrong”, BJP nationwide vice chairman Mukul Roy stated that West Bengal didn’t get any trade for the reason that firm was compelled to go away.

    “If we win the elections, we will urge the prime minister to get the Tatas back in Singur for the sake of rejuvenation of industry in the state,” stated Roy who was within the TMC through the motion at Singur. He, nonetheless, stated that Nandigram agitation was a distinct subject for the reason that Left Front authorities had forcibly taken away land from poor farmers, and Suvendu Adhikari led that motion of the individuals.

    Adhikari, who lately resigned because the TMC MLA of Nandigram and joined the BJP, alleged that stones have been thrown through the assembly to create chaos and disturbance.

    “Even the CPI(M) during its rule had not done any such thing when the TMC held meetings,” Adhikari stated.

    He thanked BJP leaders L Ok Advani, Rajnath Singh and the late Sushma Swaraj for his or her help to the Nandigram motion in 2007 in opposition to the Left Front governments transfer to accumulate farmlands for organising a particular financial zone (SEZ).

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