Patna: Agriculture minister Ram Kripal Yadav on Saturday appealed to all land-owning farmers, including beneficiaries of the Centre’s Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (KSNY), to register themselves on the farmer-registry web portal or app during a four-day special drive to be organised across the state from Jan 6 to Jan 9.
“As many as 75 lakh farmers of the state are beneficiaries of the Centre’s KSNY. For them, it is absolutely necessary to get themselves registered on the farmer-registry to continue to receive the benefit,” Yadav said. He added that the exercise is part of the Centre’s Agri-Stack Project, which aims to create unique farmer-IDs for cultivators.
The minister said the farmer-ID system would make services delivered by the agriculture department “more effective, transparent and farmer-oriented”. He said the IDs would also include land-related details of farmers and be linked with their Aadhaar numbers.
Officials said land records of Bihar have already been integrated with the Agri-Stack Project for the preparation of farmer-IDs. While personnel of the agriculture department are carrying out e-KYC of farmers, staff from the revenue department are engaged in bucketing land records of farmers for each mauja or revenue village. Bihar has a total of 38,516 revenue villages.
A pilot project of the Agri-Stack was earlier completed in two revenue villages each in Saran, Gaya, East Champaran, Purnia and Bhagalpur districts, following which it was expanded to cover all revenue villages in the state.
According to official data, the agriculture department has completed e-KYC of 30 lakh farmers so far. Farmer-IDs of 5.85 lakh farmers have been generated after bucket verification of land records, of whom 3.70 lakh are beneficiaries of the KSNY.
Having done higher secondary from Sainik School Telaiya, Hazariba...
Read MoreHaving done higher secondary from Sainik School Telaiya, Hazaribagh (now in Jharkhand), graduated in history from Patna College. Started as a freelance journalist for Free Press Journal (Mumbai) from Patna, and then joined The Times of India, Patna, as a staff reporter, got promoted to senior reporter, and later, briefly functioned as news editor. In reporting, initially covered districts like Darbhanga and Bhagalpur on events and various aspects, and then from Patna, have covered state politics, political parties, elections, state assembly, government, cabinet, departments like finance, irrigation and a few others, also CM, occasionally PM's tours, and social issues. Have written two books -- first, Bihar in Messianic Times, second, The First Address, on the Governor House (Bihar), commissioned by the Response (Advertisement) wing of The Times Of India, Patna.
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