By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: The PM-Kisan scheme, launched with an aim to ensure a life of dignity and prosperity for farmers has completed two years on Wednesday.In a series of tweets the Prime Minister said,” On this day, 2 years ago the PM-Kisan scheme was launched with an aim to ensure a life of dignity as well as prosperity for our hardworking farmers, who work day and night to keep our nation fed. The tenacity and passion of our farmers is inspiring.
Over the last 7 years, the Government of India has taken many initiatives for transforming agriculture. From better irrigation to more technology, more credit and markets to proper crop insurance, focus on soil health to eliminating middlemen, the efforts are all-encompassing .
Our Government had the honour of ushering a historic increase in MSP. We are doing everything possible to double the income of farmers. You can find insightful content on the NaMo App, offering a glimpse of the work done for farmers.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammann Nidhi is an initiative by the government of India in which all farmers will get up to ₹6,000 per year as minimum income support. The initiative was announced during the 2019 Interim Union Budget of India on 1 February 2019.
