Under PM Kisan Yojana, landless farmers, pensioners of more than 10 thousand rupees, engineers, doctors, CAs, central and state employees, including only one person from a family, are directed not to get the benefit of this scheme. All these categories of people have availed the benefit of Kisan Samman Nidhi. According to the information received, crores of rupees have been deposited in the accounts of ineligible farmers.
After the discrepancy was revealed, the Kisan Nidhi available to such farmers has been stopped. Also, action is being taken to recover them. According to the official of the department, so far Rs 45 lakh 52 thousand has been recovered from 2176 farmers. This action will continue in future also. At the same time, according to the District Agriculture Officer, in the initial phase, there were no clear instructions regarding the eligibility of farmers for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Nidhi Yojana.
In such a situation, the distribution of funds of this scheme was started from the available records of the beneficiary farmers of other schemes in the department. The eligibility list has been amended as the clear instructions started coming in. Now money is being recovered from the ineligible who have availed the benefits with the department. In this scheme, two thousand rupees are sent to the account of farmers thrice in a year.
So many ineligible took Kisan Samman Nidhi
- 7840 ineligible farmers were seen taking advantage of the scheme.
- 1300 dead farmers are involved in this.
- 642 landless farmers are getting the benefit of the scheme.
- There are 589 such beneficiaries who are pensioners of more than 10 thousand rupees.
- 218 Central and State employees are also availing the benefits of the scheme.
- 10 present and former members are getting benefits.
- 639 Many members are getting the benefit of the scheme in a single family.
Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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