From better irrigation to more technology, more credit and markets to proper crop insurance, focus on soil health to eliminating middlemen, the efforts are all-encompassing, he asserted
On completion of two years of NDA government s flagship programme PM-Kisan Scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government is doing everything possible to double farmers income, and many initiatives have been taken so far for transforming agriculture.
All eligible beneficiaries under PM-Kisan should be covered: Tomar
By IANS| Updated: 24th February 2021 10:45 pm IST
New Delhi, Feb 24 : Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, on Wednesday urged the states to ensure that all eligible beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan), a flagship scheme of the Modi-government, are covered.
While addressing a programme on completion of two years of PM-Kisan, the Union minister informed that Rs 1,15,638.87 crore has been transferred to more than 10.75 crore beneficiaries since the inception of the scheme.
The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 24, 2019, from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.
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