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After presiding over the third meeting of the Direct Benefit Transfer Advisory Board on Wednesday, Kaushal said, “The state government has effectively identified a cumulative total of 36,74,833 ghost/duplicate beneficiaries from the fiscal year 2014-15 to 2022-23. This strategic initiative has yielded substantial notional savings amounting to Rs 7,822.69 crore.”

The Centre is not in favour of reworking the MSP for paddy or other crops, ET gathers. The agriculture ministry holds that the fixed MSP which provides at least 50% return over all India weighted average cost of production is a benefit to farmers across the country. Raising the price of crops simply to make them competitive with rice could result in a distortion of market prices and it would be inappropriate to resort to such a measure for one state.

Late rain spells this year delayed sowing of paddy in large parts of Punjab, also prolonging the usual harvest period. While most of the harvesting and stubble disposal is usually completed by mid-November, some pockets are yet to do so in Punjab leading to increased farm fi res this week and high AQI persisting in Delhi-NCR.