Fishermen Scheme

Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that as many as 131.3 lakh fishermen have been covered under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in Goa to officially kick start the Trinamool Congress' campaign in the poll-bound state, arrived at a local fish market on Friday to roars of "khela hobe" - the party's poll cry for the Bengal elections.

Presenting the Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman said fishing and fishermen were closely aligned with farming and were crucial to rural India.

Under the central government's scheme, biometric identity cards have been issued to 69 percent of six lakh fishermen in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh.

A fisherman's welfare association said it would stage a demonstration in front of the office of Project Implementation Agency on March 7 to protest against 'delay'' in implementing housing scheme for tsunami hit fishermen families of Vambakeerapalayam hamlet.

Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that as many as 131.3 lakh fishermen have been covered under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in Goa to officially kick start the Trinamool Congress' campaign in the poll-bound state, arrived at a local fish market on Friday to roars of "khela hobe" - the party's poll cry for the Bengal elections.

Presenting the Budget for 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman said fishing and fishermen were closely aligned with farming and were crucial to rural India.

Under the central government's scheme, biometric identity cards have been issued to 69 percent of six lakh fishermen in the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh.

A fisherman's welfare association said it would stage a demonstration in front of the office of Project Implementation Agency on March 7 to protest against 'delay'' in implementing housing scheme for tsunami hit fishermen families of Vambakeerapalayam hamlet.