The Union Government has provided a sum of Rs 700 crore for financial assistance of farmers and promotion of agriculture and horticulture to Uttarakhand and more than one lakh farmers of the State have availed its benefit.
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat said this while addressing a public meeting at Ghansali in Tehri district on Thursday.
He said that the State Government is committed to double the income of farmers till 2022 and for it a loan up to Rs 1 lakh is being provided to the farmers at an interest rate of only 2 percent under Pandit Deen Day Upadhyaya Kisan Kalyan Yojana.
The CM distributed cheques amounting of Rs 17.92 Crore to 3699 farmers in two separate programmes held at Ghansali and Dhanolti on the day. Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that the state government is planning to give benefit of health insurance to 27 lakh families of the state. He said that the Government has started the process of E-tendering in awarding construction contracts to bring in transparency.
The CM said that arrangement for giving small contracts less than Rs 25 lakh without process of E tendering is being made.
Rawat reiterated the commitment of his government to make the state corruption free and said that action has been taken against officials involved in NH 74 and food grain scam.
The CM also unveiled projects worth Rs 13.77 Crores of Public Works Department (PWD) for Ghansali on the occasion.
He distributed 21 power weeders, 2 power thrashers and a water pump to the farmers in the programme. At Dhanolti, 33 power weeders on 80 percent subsidy were distributed to farmers on the day.
The Agriculture Minister Subodh Uniyal, State Minister for higher education Dhan Singh Rawat, MlAs Shaktilal Shah, Vijay Panwar, Dhan Singh Negi, Vinod Kandari, Pritam Panwar and large number of farmers were present in these programmes.