Thursday, 17 January 2019

Income support scheme under DIT( Direct income transfer) to tje rural farmers of india.

Odisha Govt under the  Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (Kalia)  will transfer the amount under the scheme comprises three components: a) Rs 5,000/family per crop season to over 30 lakh small and marginal farmers having less than 5 acres of land, b) Rs 12,500/family per year to 10 lakh landless agriculture labourers and c) Rs 10,000/family to 5 lakh ‘vulnerable’ farmers every year.

The cost for the whole scheme has been estimated at Rs 10,180 crore in five seasons starting rabi 2018-19.
While Telangana is giving Rs 4,000/acre each season to all land-owing farmers, Odisha has restricted it to Rs 5,000/family as it has also announced scheme for landless farmers.

State Govt of Telangana has been implementing an income support scheme for farmers called Rythu Bandhu since May 2018 paid Rs 5,256 crore to about 51 lakh farmers during kharif 2018 under the Rythu Bandhu for purchase of inputs like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and labour costs.

The Centre is now also reportedly considering an income support scheme (which may be announced in the interim Budget to be presented on February 1),

I doubt that the said scheme of income
support can be implemented in the right spirit because all other states are also rolling out one or the other income support scheme and there will be a total chaos due to duplication of the income support schemes at the state level and center level both to claim the contribution of the respective political party or the concerned Govt.
Therefore the central government shall roll out the income support scheme very cautiously so that the real benefit goes to the real and needy poor and mass farmers.As the govt of telangana and odisha has been giving benefit to only approx 1 crores farmers and landless farmers. It will be a harculrean task for the central govt to handle all the farmers and landless farmers which are to the tine of more than 10 crores landholdings.
As per Registrar General of India & Census report 2011 the total farmers or cultivators population of India is 118.7 million (2011) & 144.3 million agricultural workers/labourers which consists 263 million ot total rural  population means 26 crore.
I don't think that it is a easy job for the central govt to roll out a i come support scheme in such a small period of approx 2 weeks time by 1st Feb 2019  for such a large population data of rural india. Govt should rethink and replan by allocation of funds to states for devising their own policies of i come support, because different states having different agricultural ecosystems with different problems of the agricultural it related issues and they have to be first understood and then the scheme can be devised by the respective States. Otherwise if the central government wants to take credit for the benefit of the farmers then they must derive some scheme of assuring income through MSP already declared and to be implemented through already legal instruments in existence by the government of India which are Aadhar/WDRA and ENWR which can be linked with each other and the government can transfer the amount of MSP to the respective farmers and this is the only way where in the smallest available time it can be implemented with very proper accuracy otherwise it may be failure.

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