The idea is to cut the Kalia support to each farmer to Rs 4,000/year from Rs 10,000/year as conceived earlier. By Prabhudatta Mishra
The Odisha government’s direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for farmers, Kalia, which was announced a few months before the Assembly elections last year, may be curtailed and subsumed in the PM-Kisan scheme run by the Centre.
The idea is to cut the Kalia support to each farmer to Rs 4,000/year from Rs 10,000/year as conceived earlier. Under the PM Kisan scheme, a farmer is entitled to receive a sum of Rs 6,000 a year. “When the Kalia […]
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