Names and other related information about farmers given assistance under Micro Irrigation Scheme during the last 3 years will be uploaded on departmental website. This was informed by Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Gaurishankar Bisen at a meeting of department's advisory committee at Vidhan Sabha here on Monday.
Minister Bisen said that transparency would be brought in departmental functioning. With this in view, names, addresses and amount of subsidy given to farmers under Micro Irrigation Scheme during last 3 years will be uploaded on departmental website. This will enable public representatives to inspect real situation at sites.
Bisen said that information in this regard has been received from 30 districts so far. He informed that the same online procedure has been adopted to make available agriculture appliances to farmers.
He said that process is on to fill up vacancies in the department. It has also been ensured that farmers get quality seeds and fertilizers. Proposed seeds and fertilizers test lab will be established at Rewa and Shahdol soon. Bisen informed that agriculture action plans will now be chalked out at block level instead of district level.
Efforts would be made to ensure that agriculture action plans are chalked out at Panchayat level. He informed that transfer policy for Agriculture Extension Officers will be framed soon.
MlAs Kedarnath Shukla, Jhuma Solanki, Shailendra Patel, Murlidhar Patidar and KK Shrivastava put up various suggestions.
Notably, the State Govt has decided to encourage micro-irrigation system in the state to overcome challenges thrown up by drought-like situation and limited water resources.
At present one lakh hectare is irrigated using micro-irrigation system, which the government plans to increase to two lakh hectares within a year.