The pandemic's first wave had a devastating impact on the livelihoods of rural workers in Bihar (including the self-employed) last year, according to a survey based research, jointly done by economists from Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University, Australia and the New Delhi-based Institute for Human Development. A recent press note issued by the authors of the study shows that almost 94.4 percent of the households participating...
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Lessons in direct income support from Odisha -Varad Pande and Shilpa Kumar
-The Indian Express Governments can learn much on how to construct a social welfare system for farmers from Odisha's KALIA scheme for DIS. The recent farmer agitation has brought the issue of farmer distress front and centre in the public consciousness. The time seems ripe to find new solutions to the structural challenges facing farmers. One promising step is the shift from non-targeted agriculture subsidies towards direct income support (DIS). A key...
More »Centre Has Paid Rs 1,364 Crore To Over 20 Lakh Undeserving Beneficiaries Under PM-KISAN
-TheWire.in/ PTI Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative said more than 20 lakh "ineligible farmers" and "income tax payee farmers” had been paid, according to information revealed under the RTI Act. New Delhi: The government has paid Rs 1,364 crore to 20.48 lakh undeserving beneficiaries under its ambitious PM-KISAN scheme, a reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query by the Union agriculture ministry reveals. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammann Nidhi (PM-KISAN)...
More »90,000 Ineligible beneficiaries under PM-KISAN Nidhi scheme identified in Villupuram district
-The Hindu As of Sunday, around ₹7.5 crore in cash credited into the bank accounts of 20,500 Ineligible beneficiaries had been recovered VILLUPURAM: The Department of Agriculture has identified as many as 90,000 Ineligible beneficiaries under the PM-KISAN Nidhi scheme in the district and recovered ₹7.5 crore so far. A senior official on anonymity said that out of the 90,000 Ineligible beneficiaries, as many as 38,000 were from Villupuram district while 60,000 were...
More »Where are the PDS beneficiaries? Rajasthan government is looking for answers -Rakesh Goswami
-Hindustan Times In last 12 months, 3 million people in Rajasthan haven’t turn up to claim ration from Fair Price Shops for two months in a row Jaipur: Rajasthan government is looking for answers. Its food department has begun an exercise to look for those people eligible for procuring food grains from fair price shops (FPSs) but have not turned up for two consecutive months. In last 12 months, around three million people...
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