Bhubaneswar: BJP on Thursday promised to end a controversial centralized token system for the procurement of rice and streamline the purchase by opening a market yard at the Panchlayat level under the leadership of Sarpanches if the party was chosen in the election of three Panchayat in Odisha.
Removing BJP 22 points manifesto for rural polls, the party tried to seduce farmers.
BJP President Samir Mohanty said his party would fight for a transparent rice procurement system by ending the Nexus of Miller and intermediaries.
“The system to send tokens to farmers from Bhubaneswar delay the procurement process.
This will stop,” he said.
Various farmers’ organizations have protested the current system where farmers can sell rice only when they get centralized tokens produced at the state level and on predetermined date and time given to them.
Manifesto BJP said the party would work to ensure that farmers can sell all their harvest, eliminating the upper limit set for each depending on the size of their land, with their minimum support prices.
BJP also promised to ensure central cash incentives under PM Kisan reached farmers.
The party said that even though the trade union government has provided Rs 6000 per year in three installments, Lion’s section of money will be an intermediary due to loyalty to the ruling party in Odisha and not to the real farmers.
BJP said committed to strengthening Panchayats as imagined in the constitution and ensuring decentralized decision making.
The Sabhas gram will be formed to make a village level development plan with the help of Sarpanches and members of the environment.
Environmental members and Sarpanches will immediately spend money given to Panchayats.
The Safron party leaflet said that if it chose it would end up with bribes to implement houses under the Pradhan Mantri Beware of Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G) and the toilet under Swachh Bharat.
Promised to ensure all qualified beneficiaries get the Pmay-g house.
The party will ensure the drinking water and LPG gas connections to each household.
BJP said that in addition to further strengthening the non-governmental groups, it was considered a large BJD Bank, the party would form self-help groups and expanded similar benefits.
BJP said it would ensure Panchayat Samitis worked effectively without political and bureaucratic disorders.
It is said that Zilla Parishads will be empowered to prepare and implement the district level development plan.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Work Work Guarantee Work (MgNegs) Works that are currently done using a machine will be stopped so that workers who need to get a job, he said.