Bhubaneshwar: The Odisha government has agreed to implement the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), deciding to share the first list of beneficiaries under its own farm-intervention programme for the Centre’s cash-transfer scheme.
Bhubaneshwar: The Odisha government has agreed to implement the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), deciding to share the first list of beneficiaries under its own farm-intervention programme for the Centre’s cash-transfer scheme.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s government, which had refused to implement the Ayushman Bharat central health insurance scheme, had earlier been noncommittal on the PM’s farm intervention scheme as well.
The Centre is expected to formally launch the PM-KISAN scheme, announced in the interim budget 2019-20, at a farmers’ conclave in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on February 24. The onus on identifying beneficiaries for it has been placed with the states.
Preoccupied with a state-wide rollout of its own Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme — it covers sharecroppers and landless agriculture labour as well — the state government had not decided who would qualify for the central scheme. On Thursday, the state announced it would share the list of 12.45 lakh small and marginal farmers who had received the first instalment of Rs 5,000 under the KALIA scheme.
These farmers, holding up to 2 hectares of land, in the state now stand to gain an additional Rs 6,000 in three instalments through the year under the PM-KISAN scheme.
Addressing a gathering of farmers at Sohela in Bargarh district, Patnaik on Thursday launched the Phase-II of KALIA. The scheme has been praised by economists for not being a loan waiver and including sharecroppers and landless farmers. Those with landholding get an assistance of Rs 25,000 (over five cropping seasons) while sharecroppers and the landless farmers get Rs 12,500 in three instalments.
Patnaik’s said: “It is very sad that the Centre’s scheme does not have anything for these neglected and deprived sections (sharecroppers and landless farmers). I have taken up the issue with the Prime Minister and demanded steps for supporting the landless farmers, sharecroppers and agricultural workers and protecting their interests.” He also wanted the assistance to be enhanced from Rs 6,000 to Rs 10,000.
The KALIA juggernaut — with posters, billboards, and conventions sweeping the countryside — has practically the entire state machinery occupied even as Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal aims for a fifth-term in the government. The government’s latest announcement is KALIA scholarships. The state government, which claims to have already paid 16 lakh farmers, said on Thursday it distributed money to another 14 lakh small and marginal farmers.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s government, which had refused to implement the Ayushman Bharat central health insurance scheme, had earlier been noncommittal on the PM’s farm intervention scheme as well.
The Centre is expected to formally launch the PM-KISAN scheme, announced in the interim budget 2019-20, at a farmers’ conclave in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on February 24. The onus on identifying beneficiaries for it has been placed with the states.
Preoccupied with a state-wide rollout of its own Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme — it covers sharecroppers and landless agriculture labour as well — the state government had not decided who would qualify for the central scheme. On Thursday, the state announced it would share the list of 12.45 lakh small and marginal farmers who had received the first instalment of Rs 5,000 under the KALIA scheme.
These farmers, holding up to 2 hectares of land, in the state now stand to gain an additional Rs 6,000 in three instalments through the year under the PM-KISAN scheme.
Addressing a gathering of farmers at Sohela in Bargarh district, Patnaik on Thursday launched the Phase-II of KALIA. The scheme has been praised by economists for not being a loan waiver and including sharecroppers and landless farmers. Those with landholding get an assistance of Rs 25,000 (over five cropping seasons) while sharecroppers and the landless farmers get Rs 12,500 in three instalments.
Patnaik’s said: “It is very sad that the Centre’s scheme does not have anything for these neglected and deprived sections (sharecroppers and landless farmers). I have taken up the issue with the Prime Minister and demanded steps for supporting the landless farmers, sharecroppers and agricultural workers and protecting their interests.” He also wanted the assistance to be enhanced from Rs 6,000 to Rs 10,000.
The KALIA juggernaut — with posters, billboards, and conventions sweeping the countryside — has practically the entire state machinery occupied even as Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal aims for a fifth-term in the government. The government’s latest announcement is KALIA scholarships. The state government, which claims to have already paid 16 lakh farmers, said on Thursday it distributed money to another 14 lakh small and marginal farmers.