Farmers seek probe into central scheme scam
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Farmers seek probe into central scheme scam
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Coimbatore: A group of farmers staged a protest demanding CB-CID inquiry into the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme scam at multiple places in Tirupur on Tuesday. The central government scheme offers Rs 6,000 a year to all landholding farmers. “Since March, multiple camps were organized across the state to enroll eligible farmers under the scheme and the number of beneficiaries kept increasing. It is only a few days ago it was revealed that thousands of the people who were enrolled under the scheme were ineligible. Subsequently, the agriculture department launched an inquiry into it,” district secretary of All India Kisan Sabha R Kumar said. But we don’t have trust in the inquiry as it was the same officials from the department who had organized the camps and enrolled ineligible people as beneficiaries were conducting the inquiry. So, we demand CB-CID probe into the issue, he added.
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The Times of India
Date
2020-09-02
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Coimbatore