<p>A Parliamentary panel has voiced concern over the exclusion of landless and tenant farmers from the Modi government's flagship initiative PM-Kisan, the income support scheme for farmers.</p>.<p>The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, chaired by BJP leader P C Gaddigoudar, noted that farmers in the north-eastern states, who till community land, have been included in the PM-Kisan initiative under which farmers receive Rs 6,000 per year as income support in three instalments of Rs 2,000 each.</p>.<p>“However, the same benefits are not available to the tenant farmers and farmers tilling panchayat/government land whose name is not recorded in government,” the Committee said adding that depriving the landless and tenants farmers from the scheme would be “disservice to them”.</p>.<p>As many as 9.6 crore farmers have been registered to receive benefits under the PM-Kisan initiative that was launched on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections, prompting opposition Congress to accuse the government of bribing farmers.</p>.<p>The Committee asked the government to examine the issue of of extending the scheme to landless and tenant farmers in coordination with the states within three months.</p>.<p>The government has distributed more than Rs 50,000 crore among farmers since 2018-19 till date and has set a target of ensuring that the benefits of the scheme reach 12 crore farmers.</p>.<p>The benefits under PM-Kisan has reached farmers across all states except West Bengal where the Trinamool Congress government was yet to submit a list of beneficiaries to the Centre.</p>.<p>According to the government the benefits of PM-Kisan have reached 8.3 crore unique beneficiaries and efforts were on to ensure complete coverage of farmers under the scheme.</p>.<p>The Agriculture Ministry informed the Committee that there were facing issues such as non-availability of land records, non-transference of land to heirs in case of deceased landholders, non-availability of proper records after mutation of land in Punjab in enrollment of farmers under the scheme.</p>
<p>A Parliamentary panel has voiced concern over the exclusion of landless and tenant farmers from the Modi government's flagship initiative PM-Kisan, the income support scheme for farmers.</p>.<p>The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, chaired by BJP leader P C Gaddigoudar, noted that farmers in the north-eastern states, who till community land, have been included in the PM-Kisan initiative under which farmers receive Rs 6,000 per year as income support in three instalments of Rs 2,000 each.</p>.<p>“However, the same benefits are not available to the tenant farmers and farmers tilling panchayat/government land whose name is not recorded in government,” the Committee said adding that depriving the landless and tenants farmers from the scheme would be “disservice to them”.</p>.<p>As many as 9.6 crore farmers have been registered to receive benefits under the PM-Kisan initiative that was launched on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections, prompting opposition Congress to accuse the government of bribing farmers.</p>.<p>The Committee asked the government to examine the issue of of extending the scheme to landless and tenant farmers in coordination with the states within three months.</p>.<p>The government has distributed more than Rs 50,000 crore among farmers since 2018-19 till date and has set a target of ensuring that the benefits of the scheme reach 12 crore farmers.</p>.<p>The benefits under PM-Kisan has reached farmers across all states except West Bengal where the Trinamool Congress government was yet to submit a list of beneficiaries to the Centre.</p>.<p>According to the government the benefits of PM-Kisan have reached 8.3 crore unique beneficiaries and efforts were on to ensure complete coverage of farmers under the scheme.</p>.<p>The Agriculture Ministry informed the Committee that there were facing issues such as non-availability of land records, non-transference of land to heirs in case of deceased landholders, non-availability of proper records after mutation of land in Punjab in enrollment of farmers under the scheme.</p>
