Samba, Feb 24:
Farmers awareness cum Publicity programme under PM (KISAN) was organised by District Administration Samba in all blocks of district today. District Dev Commissioner Samba, Sushma Chauhan participated in PM KISAN awareness program at Vijaypur. Around 1200 farmers in different blocks participated in this program. Awareness was given to the farmers regarding operational guidelines of the scheme. DDC appreciated the synergetic efforts of Agriculture Department, Revenue Department, Rural Department and District Informatics Centre for capturing, verifying, digitising and uploading of the eligible farmer’s data in record time. Out of 38998 small and marginal farmers, 25168 farmers were found eligible. The first installment of Rs 2000 per farming family is going to be credited in accounts of farming families through DBT in a week’s time and next installment shall be due after 01-04-2019. There is a provision to include left out farmers if any in due course of time. ADDC Samba Arvind Kotwal, ADC Samba Dr.Vikas Gupta, SDM Vijaypur, Vijay Sharma , District Agrculture Officer Samba Vijay Upadhaya, SDAO Samba Tilak Raj Sharma and DPD (ATMA)Samba, Ashok Gupta deliberated and participated in the event.
