Chief Minister Shri Chouhan reviewed Ladli Behna and Farmers Interest Waiver Scheme
Bhopal. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Chief Minister Ladli Behna Yojana and Chief Minister Farmer Interest Waiver Schemes are wonderful. Better work has been done in the implementation of these schemes. Ministers, MLAs, public representatives and officers and employees of the district administration deserve congratulations for this. He said that under Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana, one crore 18 lakh 22 thousand 624 dear sisters have been successfully paid so far, whose percentage is 98.51. He directed the officers to seek cooperation from the public representatives to help the sisters whose funds are not being transferred under the Ladli Behna Yojana.
Chief Minister Chouhan was reviewing Chief Minister Ladli Bahna Yojana and Chief Minister Farmer Interest Waiver Scheme at his residence office Samatva Bhawan late Thursday evening. Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Additional Chief Secretary Agriculture Ashok Varnwal, Principal Secretary Cooperative Umakant Umrao, Principal Secretary Science and Technology Mr. Nikunj Srivastava and officials of related departments were present in the meeting.
Payment will be made soon in the account of the remaining dear sisters
In the meeting, the Chief Minister instructed the remaining sisters to make all necessary efforts to get the money transferred to their accounts soon after transfer of funds under Ladli Bahna Yojana. He said that one lakh 78 thousand 891 sisters who have not received the amount in their account, necessary information should be obtained from them and made available to the bank, so that payment can be made in their account.
He said that cooperation of mayor, district president, sarpanch and all public representatives should be taken in Aadhaar seeding work. Along with the public representatives, go to the banks and provide necessary help in updating the account data, so that the amount of the scheme can reach. It was told that the payment orders of 1.07 lakh beneficiary sisters, who were DBT activated between June 10 and June 14, have been processed on June 15.
Action being taken to resolve the failed payment cases
All dear sisters are being informed through SMS about failure of tax payment. Reasons for failure and suggestions for their redressal are also being sent through messages. The reason and solution for failure of payment of each Ladli Behna at district and local body level is being displayed. After redressal from the district level, information about re-action of payment to dear sisters will be given through the portal.
Fertilizer-seed will be available at zero percent interest rate
The Chief Minister said that after the amount deposited in the account of the defaulter farmers under the Krishak Interest Waiver Scheme, now those farmers can get fertilizers and seeds at zero percent interest rate. He said that under the Mukhyamantri Kisan-Kalyan Yojana, farmers will now be given Rs 6,000 instead of Rs 4,000. Every year an amount of two thousand rupees will be given in three installments.
It is noteworthy that on May 9, 2023, the Farmers Interest Waiver Scheme was approved by the Council of Ministers. In the scheme, there is a provision to waive the interest amount of short term and medium term converted loan along with interest of Rs 2 lakh on defaulter farmers as on March 31, 2023. Under the scheme, the outstanding interest amount of about Rs 2123 crore has been waived on 11 lakh 19 thousand defaulter farmers.
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