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PM-Kisan Scheme to be implemented in West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee

Under the PM-Kisan scheme, an income support of Rs 6,000 per year in three equal installments is provided to small and marginal farmer families. With assembly polls knocking at the door, Banerjee also hinted that she was ready to implement the PM-Kisan scheme in Bengal.

Chintu Das
Mamta Banerjee

Proceeding with her rant against the Centre over the recent farm laws, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that courses of action would be made to gather a get together meeting to pass a verdict against the quarrelsome Acts.  

With the polls arriving, Banerjee additionally indicated that she was prepared to execute the PM-Kisan scheme in West Bengal, if the farmers profited out of it and said she had also requested the Govt. to share subtleties from each one of the individuals who have enlisted themselves on the government's portal for the scheme. Banerjee, in any case, attested that she could never permit the execution of the three farm laws, which have started dissent in the nation. 

"We are against those contentious laws. We would before long gather an assembly meeting for a couple of days and pass a verdict against the contentious laws," commented Banerjee. West Bengal, in the event that it passes the verdict, would turn into the 6th state in the nation to do as such, after Kerala,Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

The Chief Minister's comments went ahead before the seventh round of talks between farmer associations and three chief ministers finished uncertainly. The farmer bunches adhered to their interest for the nullification of the three farming laws, while the centre drilled down different benefits of the new Acts for the development of the nation's agri sector. 

"I uphold the farmers and wish the disengagement of these three laws for the nation," she stated, hammering the centre for not renouncing the Acts. A large number of farmers mostly belonging to Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh regions, are fighting at the Delhi borders for longer than a month now against the three laws. They have waited regardless of substantial amounts of rain and water logging at fight locations throughout the recent few days, besides extreme chilly climate conditions going on and around the national capital.

Blaming the centre for "seeking after legislative issues" over the issue of execution of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi in West Bengal, Banerjee said she wouldn't allow the farmers to endure. "I had consistently requested that the centre exchange funds allocated under the PM-Kisan plan to the state government. That was rarely done. Central government authorities asserted that around 21.7 lakh farmers from West Bengal had enrolled themselves on a portal to get the advantages of the scheme. Government has looked for confirmation of this information. I comprehended that the centre was attempting to politicize the issue. We additionally understood that farmers ought to endure along these lines and I have requested that the centre pass on the information so we can begin the verification cycle," she said.

PM-Kisan scheme supports a pay of Rs 6,000 every year in three equivalent portions is given to the small and marginal farmer families. The CM also added that she needs farmers to get all conceivable assistance, notwithstanding the help being given out by her administration. 

Banerjee had in the past restricted the usage of central govt. plans, saying that her administration would permit PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat programs in the state, just if the funds to the recipients are directed through the state government. 

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