Bengal doubles farmers’ help earnings, CM says stored ballot promise

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday relaunched her authorities’s Krishak Bandhu scheme, doubling the help to farmers to Rs 10,000 a yr.
Farm labourers and sharecroppers who personal not less than one katha (0.0165 acre) of land, will now get Rs 4,000 a yr, as an alternative of the Rs 2,000 they used to get earlier.
Addressing a press meet on the state secretariat in Howrah, the Chief Minister mentioned that as promised by her celebration, the Trinamool Congress, in the course of the Assembly elections this yr, she has determined to double the help earnings for farmers, labourers and sharecroppers.
“I am happy to announce that the Government of West Bengal is relaunching the Krishak Bandhu Scheme by doubling the annual financial support for all farmers and share-croppers. Additionally, those having less than one acre of cultivable land will now receive a minimum of Rs 4,000 per annum, on a pro-rata basis. Farmers will now receive increased financial support from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 for one acre or more of cultivable land,” she mentioned, including that the scheme would profit over 60 lakh farmers.
The cash can be paid in two equal instalments.

Comparing her authorities’s scheme to the Centre’s PM-Kisan scheme, Banerjee mentioned, “Our (Krishak Bandhu) scheme is more inclusive than the Centre’s (PM-Kisan scheme). People having small patches of farmland are not included in the Central scheme. We think about every section of the farming community,”
The Chief Minister claimed that the Centre’s scheme isn’t benefitting the farmers in West Bengal as many will not be coated below it. “Sharecroppers and labourers are not covered under the Central scheme,” she mentioned.