Provide bank linkage & KCC to farmers: DM

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Provide bank linkage & KCC to farmers: DM

Sunday, 23 February 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

The District Magistrate (DM) of Pithoragarh, Vijay Kumar Jogdande has directed the officials that bank linkages and Kisan Credit Card (KCC) should be provided to all members of the cooperative societies and groups engaged under integrated livelihood support project (ILSP) in the district.

He was undertaking a review meeting of the development projects under the AJIVIKA and GRAMYA schemes at his office on Saturday.

He said that innovations should be done in the projects related to different aspects of agriculture in the rural areas so that the income of the farmers is doubled. Appreciating the works undertaken in Vin, Munakot and Kanalichenna blocks the DM suggested that production of potato seeds should be done at Bhatedi and Badabe.

 The project manager ILSP, Kukdeep Bisht said that in all three blocks a total business of Rs 8. 40 crore was generated by 18 federations in the year 2019-20.

He claimed that the federations earned revenue of Rs 70.29 Lakhs in this period and 11112 members of these federations got benefitted. Bisht said that the state administration has given approval for three growth centres in the district. In the meeting, the DM also reviewed the works of the district watershed coordination committee.

The deputy director of GRAMYA, N S Rawat gave a detailed account of the watershed management, agriculture, horticulture development and land conservation schemes under the project. In the meeting, the DM said that the objective of the project is to augment efficiency in the use of natural resources and increase in productivity of rain fed agriculture by participation of village groups in micro watershed areas. The Chief Development Officer (CDO) Vandana and other officers were present in the meeting.

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