A meeting was organised in the Vikas Bhawan Auditorium on Monday to discuss the ambitious scheme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on doubling the income of farmers by 2022. Presiding over the meeting, the State Minister for higher education, cooperatives and dairy development, Dhan Singh Rawat directed the departments concerned to meet their targets on time.
He deliberated on schemes towards changing the orientation of agriculture towards organic farming and gave information about assistance given by the Government in case of disaster or natural death of the farmer and also procedure for one time settlement. The Minister reviewed the programmes being undertaken by cooperative committees in the district.
Rawat informed that under Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay scheme, 11,622 farmers have been given interest free loan of Rs 5,817.05 lakh through the agriculture department. Regarding women empowerment under the scheme Rs 5 lakh interest free loan has been proposed for women and self help groups, said the Minister.
To strengthen the economic condition of farmers under different schemes, suggestions were given by departmental officials. Linking of 5,000 members to organic farming was proposed in the meeting. Haridwar magistrate Deependra Chaudhary and other officials were also present during the meeting.