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E Shinde's 1st Budget For Maharashtra Prioritises Aid For Farmers, Women
The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government on Thursday presented its maiden Budget for 2023-24, in which it proposed Rs 6,000 assistance to farmers and Re 1 crop insurance scheme while also offering relief in professional tax to working women.
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Government Plans To Revamp Crop Cover Scheme To Attract More Insurers
Amid reports of some insurance companies making profits in the government's flagship crop cover scheme PMFBY, the Centre is planning to revamp the programme to rationalise premium rate and encourage participation of more insurers.
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Budget 2021: Adequate Crop Insurance Schemes Necessary For Agriculture
Budget 2021: To help farmers with long-term investment on equipment, irrigation, or infrastructure creation related to farming, rather than focusing on recurring expenditure, such as weeding, harvesting, sorting, and transporting
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"Bribe For Votes": Chidambaram Attacks PM's Mega Farmer Income Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega scheme for farmers that will be rolled out today was equated to ''bribe for votes'' by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram's attack came hours before PM Modi launches the Rs. 75,000 crore scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur by transferring the first instalment of Rs. 2,000 each to over one crore ...
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Crop Insurance Scheme Aims Taking Away Farmer's Money: Rahul Gandhi
Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said the Centre's crop insurance scheme is aimed at taking away farmers income to fill up pockets of big businessmen.
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Crop Insurance Scheme Not Benefiting Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal Attacks PM
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his government's crop insurance scheme alleging it has failed to benefit the farming community and charged the NDA with dividing the society on caste lines.
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"Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme As Big Scam As Rafale": Uddhav Thackeray
Quoting a book, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the Centre's crop insurance scheme was "as big a scam" as the Rafale fighter jet deal.
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Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme A 'Scam', Betrays Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today termed the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yoajana (PMFBY), a crop insurance scheme, as a "big scam" and demanded that it be scrapped. He alleged that the scheme was meant to benefit insurance companies instead of farmers. "The (Pradhan Mantri) Fasal Bima Yojana is a big scam. It is betraying the farmers. Withou...
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PM Modi Is Now Looting Farmers, Says Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of "looting farmers" in the name of its much-touted crop insurance scheme, the "Pradhanmantri Bima Fasal Yojana".
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Claims Of Rs 9,628 Crore Paid Under PM's Crop Insurance Scheme In 2017
Farmers have been paid claims of Rs 9,628 crore for kharif season 2017 under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Parliament was told on Tuesday.
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In Stinging Message To Centre, Nitish Kumar Crafts New Scheme For Farmers
Smarting over a series of "let-downs" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he rejoined the BJP-led coalition last year - particularly the vastly pared down flood relief fund - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has got his own back. He has rejected a crop insurance scheme pitched by the centre as a game-changer and instead, come up with his own s...
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PM Modi Slams Karnataka Government Over Slipshod Implementation Of Crop Insurance Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today came down hard on the Siddaramaiah government in poll-bound Karnataka for being "indifferent" to farm distress and not implementing the crop insurance scheme effectively and stressed that welfare of farmers was his government's top priority.
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Budget 2018 Highlights: Free Healthcare, More Money For Farmers In Arun Jaitley's Pre-Poll Budget
The Union Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today gave a provision for minimum support price of all crops to be increased to at least 1.5 times of production cost. Mr Jaitley also announced a National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor families, which he said is the "world's largest state-sponsored healthcare progr...
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Budget 2018 May Allocate Rs 13,000 Crore For Crop Insurance Scheme
Government is likely to increase the budget allocation for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana to Rs 13,000 crore for 2018-19 from Rs 10,701 crore for the current financial year, sources said.
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Over 90 Lakh Farmers Benefited From Crop Insurance Scheme, PM Modi Told
Over 90 lakh farmers have benefited from the crop insurance scheme during the Kharif season last year and the Rabi season in 2016-17, a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told in New Delhi today.
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E Shinde's 1st Budget For Maharashtra Prioritises Aid For Farmers, Women
The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government on Thursday presented its maiden Budget for 2023-24, in which it proposed Rs 6,000 assistance to farmers and Re 1 crop insurance scheme while also offering relief in professional tax to working women.
-
Government Plans To Revamp Crop Cover Scheme To Attract More Insurers
Amid reports of some insurance companies making profits in the government's flagship crop cover scheme PMFBY, the Centre is planning to revamp the programme to rationalise premium rate and encourage participation of more insurers.
-
Budget 2021: Adequate Crop Insurance Schemes Necessary For Agriculture
Budget 2021: To help farmers with long-term investment on equipment, irrigation, or infrastructure creation related to farming, rather than focusing on recurring expenditure, such as weeding, harvesting, sorting, and transporting
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"Bribe For Votes": Chidambaram Attacks PM's Mega Farmer Income Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega scheme for farmers that will be rolled out today was equated to ''bribe for votes'' by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram's attack came hours before PM Modi launches the Rs. 75,000 crore scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur by transferring the first instalment of Rs. 2,000 each to over one crore ...
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Crop Insurance Scheme Aims Taking Away Farmer's Money: Rahul Gandhi
Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said the Centre's crop insurance scheme is aimed at taking away farmers income to fill up pockets of big businessmen.
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Crop Insurance Scheme Not Benefiting Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal Attacks PM
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his government's crop insurance scheme alleging it has failed to benefit the farming community and charged the NDA with dividing the society on caste lines.
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"Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme As Big Scam As Rafale": Uddhav Thackeray
Quoting a book, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the Centre's crop insurance scheme was "as big a scam" as the Rafale fighter jet deal.
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Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme A 'Scam', Betrays Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today termed the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yoajana (PMFBY), a crop insurance scheme, as a "big scam" and demanded that it be scrapped. He alleged that the scheme was meant to benefit insurance companies instead of farmers. "The (Pradhan Mantri) Fasal Bima Yojana is a big scam. It is betraying the farmers. Withou...
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PM Modi Is Now Looting Farmers, Says Rahul Gandhi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of "looting farmers" in the name of its much-touted crop insurance scheme, the "Pradhanmantri Bima Fasal Yojana".
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Claims Of Rs 9,628 Crore Paid Under PM's Crop Insurance Scheme In 2017
Farmers have been paid claims of Rs 9,628 crore for kharif season 2017 under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Parliament was told on Tuesday.
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In Stinging Message To Centre, Nitish Kumar Crafts New Scheme For Farmers
Smarting over a series of "let-downs" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he rejoined the BJP-led coalition last year - particularly the vastly pared down flood relief fund - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has got his own back. He has rejected a crop insurance scheme pitched by the centre as a game-changer and instead, come up with his own s...
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PM Modi Slams Karnataka Government Over Slipshod Implementation Of Crop Insurance Scheme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today came down hard on the Siddaramaiah government in poll-bound Karnataka for being "indifferent" to farm distress and not implementing the crop insurance scheme effectively and stressed that welfare of farmers was his government's top priority.
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Budget 2018 Highlights: Free Healthcare, More Money For Farmers In Arun Jaitley's Pre-Poll Budget
The Union Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today gave a provision for minimum support price of all crops to be increased to at least 1.5 times of production cost. Mr Jaitley also announced a National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor families, which he said is the "world's largest state-sponsored healthcare progr...
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Budget 2018 May Allocate Rs 13,000 Crore For Crop Insurance Scheme
Government is likely to increase the budget allocation for the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana to Rs 13,000 crore for 2018-19 from Rs 10,701 crore for the current financial year, sources said.
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Over 90 Lakh Farmers Benefited From Crop Insurance Scheme, PM Modi Told
Over 90 lakh farmers have benefited from the crop insurance scheme during the Kharif season last year and the Rabi season in 2016-17, a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told in New Delhi today.
