West Bengal, Sikkim and Delhi have not uploaded their details on the PM-KISAN portal
More than 67 lakh farmers will be left out of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme as West Bengal, Sikkim and Delhi have not uploaded their details on the PM-KISAN portal, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Sunday.
Apart from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Lakshadweep, the above three mentioned states has failed to upload data, as well as they have not made the request for fund release yet.
Singh said 67.11 lakh farmers in West Bengal would have received Rs 2,000 each had the state's availed the first installment of Rs1,342 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Nidhi (PM-KISAN).
Similarly, 55,090 farmers in Sikkim and 15,880 in Delhi could not receive their share from the Rs11 crore and Rs 3 crore funds meant for them under the scheme.
In the Interim Budget 2019-20, the central government had announced the PM-Kisan scheme under which Rs 6,000 per year will be given in three instalments to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to 2 hectares. It promised to give the first instalment of Rs 2,000 by March.
On 24 February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially launched the scheme in Uttar Pradesh by transferring the first tranche amount to over one crore farmers.
"Many states are seriously showing interest to implement the scheme and sending the data. So far, over 2 crore farmers have been benefitted," Singh told reporters.
Some states such as West Bengal, the minister said, are not keen to roll out the scheme and therefore not providing the data. "To such states, I only urge to keep the politics aside else the electorate will teach them a lesson," he added.
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