Forward of the discharge of the seventeenth instalment of PM-Kisan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi on June 18, his first public perform in his Lok Sabha constituency after coming into workplace for a 3rd time, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated Saturday that “serving agriculture and farmers is like worshipping God”.
Chouhan instructed reporters: “I’m completely satisfied the very first thing that the Prime Minister signed, after taking oath, was the file of Kisan Samman Nidhi. And his first programme can be being held in Baba Vishwanath’s metropolis Kashi, the place the Prime Minister will launch Kisan Samman Nidhi within the accounts of farmers with a single click on.”
“I’m grateful to the Prime Minister that he has given me the duty of an necessary division like agriculture. Agriculture is a very powerful division to fulfil the decision of a developed India. Agriculture is the spine of the Indian economic system. Even right now, many of the employment alternatives are created by means of agriculture and farmers are filling the meals reserves of the nation. For us, serving agriculture and farmers is like worshipping God,” he stated.
“That’s the reason, after taking cost, I’ve been within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Improvement for 4 consecutive days from morning until late night time and am learning every part totally,” he stated.
“On June 18, an quantity of about Rs 20,000 crores shall be transferred to the financial institution accounts of 9.3 crore farmers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Governor (of Uttar Pradesh), UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the state’s Agriculture Minister shall be current within the Prime Minister’s programme at Kashi,” he stated.
“50 particular Krishi Vigyan Kendras have been recognized at completely different locations within the nation, the place completely different Union Ministers will go and be a part of the programme just about and can work together with the farmers current there,” he stated.
“Aside from this, this programme is being deliberate in any respect the mandis, block locations and in each gram panchayat in lots of states. About 2 crore farmers will take part on this programme,” he stated.
Requested whether or not Chief Ministers of Opposition-ruled states have additionally been invited to the programme, Chouhan stated, “I’ve written a letter to all Chief Ministers and have requested them to affix this programme. I consider that it is a programme of the farmers and there’s no query of any ruling or Opposition (occasion) right here. I request all of the Chief Ministers to affix the programme.”
He stated the Prime Minister may also give certificates to greater than 30,000 Krishi Sakhis who’ve been educated beneath a authorities initiative to make members of girls self-help teams “Lakhpati didis”.
“We now have began the Krishi Sakhi programme in 12 states proper now. It has been began in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya,” he stated.
“Holding in view the necessary function of girls in agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Improvement has additionally signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Now, each of them will run this programme collectively,” stated Singh who additionally holds the Rural Improvement portfolio.
On the 100 days agenda, he stated, “The Prime Minister has entrusted the duty of creating a 100-day motion plan to each division. We now have reviewed that motion plan and we’ll launch it quickly.”
“Everyone knows that even in his second time period, agriculture and farmers have been the highest precedence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and he has taken many steps for the welfare of farmers,” he stated.
Chouhan later held discussions with agriculture consultants together with NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand and former Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal.