CS reviews achievements of Agri Deptt
in advancing farmer welfare initiatives
JAMMU, NOVEMBER 20:
Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today held a meeting of Agriculture Production
Department (APD) to review progress achieved on different initiatives being
taken for advancing farmers welfare and growth of agriculture sector in
J&K.
Present in the
meeting were Principal Secretary, APD, MD, HADP, Deputy Commissioners, HoDs,
Convenor, UTLBC and other concerned officers of the department.
Dulloo, while
assessing progress on establishment of Kisan Khidmat Ghars (KKGs) across
different districts of the UT, emphasised upon the concerned to keep increasing
services being extended through these KKGs. He observed that such steps would
accentuate the impact of these centres besides bringing efficiency in their
functioning and utility for the farmers. He enjoined upon the Department to
establish rest of the KKGs by January this year and make a dashboard to monitor
the transactions regarding necessary advisories, sale of seeds and fertilisers
by each of them.
The Chief Secretary
also enquire from the respective DCs about the functioning of KKGs in their
districts. He called upon them to make these centres active by establishing
kiosks for each of them in the villages of their operation. He also took note
of the hardware received by each DC and its distribution among the Kisan
Udhyamis (KUs) of their districts. He stressed on exploring ways and means to
make all those KKGs functional for which KUs had not been made available till
date.
Principal
Secretary, APD, Shailendra Kumar, emphasised upon the field functionaries to
ensure that all the 2000 KKGs are made functional before February this year. He
directed for taking the registration numbers to at least 500 per KKG. He also
enjoined upon them to convert the ongoing events of Kisan Sampark Abhiyan 3.0
and Block Diwas as the major camps for registration of farmers besides creating
awareness among them.
It was further
given out that under phase first a total of 501 KKGs had been established
across different districts of the UT and 1499 are going to be made functional
in phase 2. It was added that for each of the KKGs a science graduate is
selected by the district administration as Kisan Udhyamis for running these
centres here.
Later, the Chief
Secretary reviewed the progress made by the Department in seeding of Aadhar and
land details on PM KISAN portal. He directed the DCs to make all efforts to
remove the pendencies with regard to completion of NPCI, e-KYC and land seeding
pendencies.
He also enjoined
upon the Revenue Department to synchronize their RoR data with that of the
PM-KISAN details for generation of Agristack Ids in favour of all the farmers
as per the GoI guidelines.
It was revealed
that the IT has around 9.39 lakh active beneficiaries under PM-KISAN and these
are also being given other benefits like KCC and services under Kisan Sathi
portal developed in J&K.