In game-changer, Modi govt aims at direct connectivity with 11.5 crore farmers


New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS): By the middle of next year, the Modi government would have a direct connectivity with over 11.5 crore farmers and their families across India, making it a communication exercise hitherto unprecedented in scale. If all goes well, the massive data bank on the farmers would be ready for release by June 2020.

A top level committee, headed by Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal, is working in tandem with the Information and Technology Ministry and its National e-governance Division (NEGD) wing, to meet the deadline of the mega data project, set by the Prime Minister's Office.

With the help of this database and use of technology, life of the small and marginal farmers of the country would witness a sea change. The data will empower the farmers as well as the state to access all financial and farming-related information, ranging from soil testing to flood alerts, and from satellite imagery to land revenue records.

"The data, once ready by the next six months, would enable the farmer to have access to all sorts of market information. It is certainly going to be a game changer in the rural sector," a senior official of the Union Agriculture and Farmers Affairs Ministry told IANS adding that "besides the Agriculture Secretary, former IT Secretary J. Satyanarayana, the man behind implementation of Aadhar card scheme, and several IT experts, are looking after the database project".

Prime Minister Modi's dream project PM-KISAN (Kisan Samman Nidhi), which aims at providing assistance of Rs 6,000 to each farmer every year, seems to be a source of inspiration for gathering such mammoth data from across the country. As of now, data of 7.20 crore farmers have been collected under the PM KISAN scheme. From Uttar Pradesh alone, a data of 2.10 crore farmers have been included in the data bank.

Sources said that all the data is cross checked by the Public Fund Management System (PFMS) to ensure that money credited to a farmer's bank account, reaches the right place. As of now the government has released Rs 33,000 crore to the poor farmers since the scheme was launched in December last year.

The PM KISAN scheme, which has given crucial financial assistance to marginalised farmers was initially not welcomed by two states - Delhi and West Bengal. Later, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had a second thought over the benefits provided to the farmers under PM KISAN and recently agreed to join Modi's scheme. However, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yet remains a vocal critic of the scheme as she thinks the assistance given to farmers is an attempt of the Centre, to grab the attention of the poor for votes.

On the other hand, the BJP is of the view that Banerjee's "narrow-minded" politics has deprived the farmers of their right to get financial assistance of the government. Data suggests that 70 lakh marginalised farmers are still struggling in West Bengal to seek the benefits of the Union Government's scheme.-

  

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    economy collapsed directly from demonetisation. da chaiwala is engaged in propaganda of 4in tours

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  • Salim, Bagalkot

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Modi hain to mumkin hain. Such a powerful PM, we are really proud of you sir.

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  • Ahmed K. C., Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Chalo ab 11.5 karod kisanonko line mein laga do !

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  • Mahesh, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    for 70 years, politicians talked about farmers....only talked and talked...
    Now, something is bieng done...
    ofcourse the congress supporters know that that this is a major gamechanger...but cannot do anything...
    afterall family matters over country for them.

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  • Alex, Mangalore

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    A good idea but i am sure their real motive is to feed the farmers wrong info to help them win elections.

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  • ad, mangaluru

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Connectivity to vote bank?

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  • Neseef, Mangaluru

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Modi Ji Is Looking Chaala Handsome

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  • Dsouza, Mudarangadi/udupi

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Game changers: 15lks, ram mandir, 1$=<35rupee, terrors empty, erase pakistan, no more problems of employment, everyproduct will be make in India, farmers will bbe the bosses................. Now our tiger eating Grass....

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    India's Federal system - as per the Constitution - gives certain rights to the Centre, and certain rights to the states.

    What the present Central Government has been doing is implementing the "One Nation, one everything" policy - dear to the heart of a particular ideologue organisation.

    The "one everything" has limits in a vast country like ours. For example, farmers face local problems. These problems can't be solved by the Central babus (from Bihar, protesters' own country, etc) - just as these babus could not solve the problems of Air India.

    In fact, the central babus become a hindrance for anything running smooth.

    So, these "game-changers" are only good for news headlines. At the ground-level, they mean nothing.

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  • Santhosh, Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 31 2019

    Achche Din

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Atlanta

    Thu, Oct 31 2019

    Connect with Money & not Empty Promises ...

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  • Sampath, India

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    Rahul left India again....he might have received information that economy is in recovering path....

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  • Rolf, Dubai

    Fri, Nov 01 2019

    The Guy who selected your Name should be the follower of Congerss.

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