Minister of State for Coal and Mines, Satish Chandra Dubey will visit Meghalaya to attend a nationwide programme for the release the PM-KISAN scheme’s 17th instalment amounting to nearly Rs 20,000 crore to over 9.26 crore beneficiary farmers.
This was announced by Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Chouhan who said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the scheme from Varanasi on June 18.
Dubey will launch the instalment from the ICAR complex in Umiam.
Chouhan said the prime minister would be granting certificates to more than 30,000 self-help groups as Krishi Sakhis.
On that day, several Union Ministers will also be visiting 50 KVKs to interact with farmers and to create awareness among them about various schemes of the Department. He said that around 2.5 crore farmers will join the event across the country.
He said that maintaining absolute transparency in registering and verifying the beneficiaries, the Government of India has disbursed over Rs 3.04 lakh crore till now to more than 11 crore farmers across the nation and with the latest release, the total amount transferred to the beneficiaries since the inception of the scheme will cross well over Rs 3.24 lakh crore.