-TheWire.in Documents obtained through RTI requests shed more light on complaints by farmers that money deposited under the PM Kisan scheme was immediately debited by the banks. New Delhi: A right to information (RTI) query filed by The Wire has revealed that crores of rupees credited into farmers’ accounts under the Modi government’s ambitious PM Kisan SAMman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme were reversed within a few hours. The BJP has been championing the...
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Growth in Agri GVA deflator saw a rising trend between 2005-06 & 2009-10, despite using different sources of back-series data
The year-on-year (y-o-y) growth rate in Agri Gross Value Added (GVA) deflator (an alternative measure of inflation) shows a rising trend between 2005-06 and 2009-10. In other words, price rise pertaining to the agrarian sector accelerated during the period under discussion. This particular trend has been observed irrespective of whether one uses the GVA/GDP back-series data (Base 2011-12=100) that was computed by the National Institution for Transforming India Aayog (NITI Aayog)...
More »Jharkhand's invisible citizens: Netas don't have time for one of India's poorest districts -Anumeha Yadav
-Newslaundry.com The election season seems to have skipped adivasis in the state that has recorded 19 deaths from starvation since 2017. On New Year’s Eve, Baghiya Birijiya lost her mother Budhni Birijiyan to hunger, cold, and extreme poverty in Latehar, one of India’s poorest districts. The family had so few means that they could not cremate the 80-year-old’s body for two days, until public pressure led the administration to intervene to provide...
More »PM Kisan scheme: 'Centre has paid farmers around Rs. 10,500 cr so far'
-PTI New Delhi: Around 3.10 crore small farmers have so far received the first tranche of Rs. 2,000 each under the PM-Kisan scheme and 2.10 crore peasants have got the second instalment as well, costing Rs. 10,500 crore to the exchequer, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said Tuesday. The government had announced that 12 crore farmers would be covered under the the Rs. 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme. Each...
More »'PM KISAN scheme to benefit just 38% farmers till polls conclude' -Saurabh Katkurwar
-IANS New Delhi: The ambitious PM-KISAN scheme that aims to provide Rs 6,000 annually to small and marginal farmers will reach only 38 per cent of the intended beneficiaries by the end of ongoing Lok sabha polls, thanks to tardy furnishing of information by the states, lack of digitised land records and the election Model Code of Conduct being in force, according to government officials involved in its implementation. The scheme, announced...
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