New Delhi: More than 42 lakh farmers who do not meet the requirements, including income taxpayers, from all countries collectively receive almost RS 3,000 Crore under PM-Kisan since the implementation of this central income support scheme in February 2019.
The number will now recover from These farmers.
Note, shared by the Ministry of Agriculture at Lok Sabha on Tuesday, shows that the highest number of farmers who did not fulfill these conditions had been detected in Assam (8.3 lakh) followed by Tamil Nadu (7.2 lakh), Punjab (5.4 lakh ), Maharashtra (4.4 lakh)), Uttar Pradesh (2.6 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (2.5 lakh), Gujarat (2.3 lakh) and Rajasthan (2.1 lakh).
“The responsibility identifies the family of landowners who qualify for the benefits under the scheme are the government of each country / UTS,” said Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar at Lok Sabha while sharing wise data more than 42.16 lakh accepted collectively Rs 2,992 Crore under PM-Kisan.
He told the house that the money was now being restored from farmers who did not meet the requirements.
“Standard operating guidelines have been spent to recover money from beneficiaries that do not meet the requirements,” he said in his written response to parliamentary questions.
The center releases the amount (Rs 6,000 per year in the same three installments each RS 2,000) directly becomes beneficiaries, the Aadhaar Seed Bank account only after obtaining verified data from the State / UTS.
The Minister of Sharing with a house of around 11.08 Crore recipients from 11.93 farmers registered Crore has been given financial benefits of more than Rs 1.37 lakh Crore through various installments on July 14.
In addition to income tax, the list of exceptions of PM-Kisan beneficiaries includes all officials and retirees that serve and retirees that draw a monthly coverage of Rs 10,000 or more.
Professionals like doctors, lawyers, rented accountants, etc.
And former Minister / MPS / MPS / MLAS, the mayor of the city company and the chairman of the District Panchayats is also under the category of farmer farmers who do not meet the requirements.
Tomar said, “The structure of this scheme is inherently consisting of mechanisms to override errors based on the verification and validation of beneficiaries data by various authorities …
However, during the verification process it was found that the benefits of the scheme were transferred to several beneficiaries that did not qualify including some income tax who pays farmers.
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