Farmers Movement Archive

UP government’s outreach to help farmers get benefit of PM Kisan

LUCKNOW: As farmers’ associations threaten to intensify their agitation against the new farm laws, the state government is set to launch an outreach programme through special camps to help farmers receive the benefits of central flagship scheme PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. The scheme envisages minimum income support of Rs 6,000 per year to farmers. In a letter to all district magistrates, additional chief secretary, agriculture, Devesh Chaturvedi said the camps would be organised from February 1-3 to address the issue of authentication of Aadhaar card data which has been made mandatory for farmers to get financial support under the scheme. “In many cases, Aadhaar number was found to be invalid or the name mentioned in Aadhaar card did not match the database. In all such cases, the transfer of grant was stopped. Though the government had made provision of data correction through open source on pmkisan.gov.in portal, still there are many farmers whose data could not be rectified,” the letter said. The department directed administrative officials of all the districts to ensure mass awareness among farmers to attend the camps proposed to be organised at state seed warehouse in their respective development blocks. The agriculture department will depute its computer operators in each block to help farmers get their details corrected. In case of farmers who have got at least one instalment, the department will seek the help of banks to authenticate their data for the remaining. Farmers can get other problems also addressed in the camps, which would be monitored by agriculture department. The ACS said the DMs could also put in place better remedial measures to resolve the issue of data rectification so that the left out farmers could get the benefit of the scheme.

The Times of India

2021-01-26

Lucknow