Eligible farmers may avail the proposed kisan pension scheme now with a rider. According to the laid down norms, only those farmers who are tilling their agriculture land will be eligible for availing the kisan pension scheme that the State Government has decided to launch from August 15.
The kisan pension cover will be withdrawn in case the farmers stop doing farming works in their own land, informed SSS Pangti, CDO, Champawat. To avail the kisan pension scheme the farmers will also have to file affidavit in regard to their land, on a stamp paper worth `10. Besides, the farmers above 60 years of age, should not have more than two hectare land to avail the proposed kisan pension scheme. The eligible farmers may submit their application forms to the agriculture centre in their respective block, added Pangti.
In a bid to ensure proper implementation of this popular schemes, the State Government has made the social welfare department as nodal agency. And the same social welfare department will release the kisan pension and eligible farmers will get Rs 800 per month as kisan pension. At the same time those farmers who have been covered under the kisan pension scheme, will not be given any financial grant or pension from any other sources, clarified the officials concerned.
The State Government has decided to cover 100 farmers in each district under the kisan pension scheme on the inaugural day of this scheme i.e. August 15. So it has directed all the district administrations to identify 100 farmers till August 15, 2014 so that they (the farmers) could be covered under the Kisan Pension Scheme from August 15, 2014.
The eligible farmers who wish to avail the Kisan Pension Scheme may have to submit bank account number, mobile number and documents for verification of identity along with the application forms, as the officials concerned informed.