When there is race among states to give Farm\nLoan waiver,Odisha government launches bouquet of Welfare schemes to keep\nFarmers Vote intact. In a bid to provide financial, livelihood,\ncultivation support along with insurances to the farmers of the state, Odisha\nCabinet on Friday approved the Krushak Assistant for Livelihood and Income\nAugmentation (KALIA) Scheme to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All small and marginal\nfarmers of the state will be covered under this scheme. According to official\nsources, an amount of Rs 10,000 per family at the rate of Rs 5,000 each for\nKharif and Rabi seasons shall be provided as financial assistance for taking up\ncultivation. This assistance is for five cropping seasons spanning three years\nfrom 2018-19 to 2021-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The KALIA scheme got the nod of the state\nCabinet which met at the State Secretariat friday evening in the presence of\nChief Minister Naveen Patnaik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing media soon after\nCabinet meeting and decision, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said, \u201cThe\nsharpest decline in poverty levels in the country has happened in Odisha. Nearly\neight million people have been lifted out of poverty. Around 60% of our\npopulation is dependent on agriculture. With our intervention, from a rice\ndeficit state we have become the third largest contributor to the PDS.\nBagging a record 5 Krishi Karman Awards, we are the only state in the country\nto have doubled farmers\u2019 income. In 2014 we promised additional 10 lakh\nhectares of irrigation and we are almost there. The target will be met by March\n2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are 32 lakh farmers\u2019 family in the state\nof which 20 lakh avail crop loan. Of these, about 60 per cent families repay\nthe loan in time. Had the government waived the farm loan, only 8 lakh families\nwould have been benefited while the sharecroppers and tenant farmers would have\nbeen deprived of the benefit,\u201d the Chief Minister told mediapersons <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, as\nmany as 10 lakh landless households will be supported with a unit cost of Rs\n12,500 to take up activities like small goat rearing, duckery units, fishery\nkits, mushroom cultivation and bee keeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This apart, an annual financial assistance of\nRs 10,000 per household will be provided to take care of sustenance of those\nfarmers who may not be able to take up cultivation or avail livelihood options\ndue to old-age, disability, disease or other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Importantly, life insurance cover of Rs 2\nlakh and additional personal accident cover of Rs 2 lakh will be provided to\nboth cultivators and landless agricultural labourers covering about 57 lakh\nhouseholds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crop loans up to Rs 50,000 will henceforth be\ninterest free. Under KALIA, an amount of Rs 10,180 crore will be spent over a\nperiod of three years till 2020-21. The scheme will be reviewed in 2020-21\nfor further modifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe demand for the waiver of farm loan made by the Congress and BJP would make Odisha bankrupt and push the state to the precarious situation it had experienced in the 90s. But the state cabinet today has announced such a package for the farmers which will make the loanee farmers and all category farmers financially self-sufficient,\u201d he pointed out<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notably\nNaveen has played a Gamble by not waiving Farm Loan,However this welfare scheme\nwill have reach to Wider number of people (32 Lakhs) including landless farmers\nassociated with Farming,while in case farm loan waiver only 8 lakhs farmers\nwould have benefitted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Only time will\nsay Naveen Pattnaik Government is going to get Benefit with this welfare\nschemes in upcoming 2019 General Election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When there is race among states to give Farm Loan waiver,Odisha government launches bouquet of Welfare schemes to keep Farmers Vote intact. In a bid to provide financial, livelihood, cultivation support along with insurances to the farmers of the state, Odisha Cabinet on Friday approved the Krushak Assistant for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Scheme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,162],"tags":[600,314,598,597,601,178,599],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefactnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/farmers-plight.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}