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The government of Chhattisgarh on Thursday the launch of a scheme named after Rajiv Gandhi in the afternoon, the former Prime Minister of the 19th anniversary of the death of direct cash transfers to around 2 million farmers in four instalments, the officials of the consciousness of the matter, he said.
The officials said a five-member committee was constituted to study how to Rs 2,500 per quintal of rice would be guaranteed by the farmers as by the Congress of the pledge in its manifesto, ahead of the 2018 assembly elections. The panel was established after the government purchased rice from farmers at the rate fixed by the Center–~1,835 per quintal–in November 2019, and undertook to pay the balance amount later.
“The committee recommends that ~10,000 per hectare should be given to farmers who sell rice in the Center and adds the benefit also must be provided by the corn and sugar cane crops,” said an official in chief minister Bhupesh Baghel office on the condition of anonymity.
The beneficiaries of the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojna, which was approved by the Chhattisgarh cabinet on 14 May, will be chosen on the basis of registered land under cultivation during the harvest khalif season 2019. ~10,000 per hectare will be deposited in the bank accounts of each of the beneficiaries as well as of agriculture’s grant assistance for the cultivation.
Baghel said that the Congress leadership has been promoting the direct transfer. “We have decided to put the money in the farmers pockets again. I am sure that this will help in the recovery of the economy post-Covid-19 pandemic.”
The congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi have repeatedly asked the government to provide direct assistance in cash instead of borrowing to tide on the Covid-19 of the crisis and criticised the Centre’s Rs 20 lakh crore package that includes cheaper loans. Gandhi on Saturday said that the government should not be a “sahukar [money lender]”while arguing in favor of cash assistance.
Activist Alok Shukla, said, “If the government is claiming it as Nyay Yojna, why not the state’s 3 million farmers were covered under the plan?”
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party dismissed the scheme as “Anyay Yojna”. “The money is being given to farmers in four instalments, which will be of no use,” BJP spokesperson Sacchinand Upasane said. He added that the government had committed to give the rest of the amount of the price that had pledged to buy rice in a single instalment
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