Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 24th installment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme in Banaskantha district of Gujarat on Friday, October 30. State Agriculture Minister Jitu Vaghani gave this information on Wednesday. Let us tell you that PM Modi will be on Gujarat tour on 30th and 31st October. Jitu Vaghani said that the Prime Minister will distribute an amount of more than Rs 18,680 crore to more than 9.34 crore farmers across the country during the program organized in Bhildi.
This year, the 22nd installment was released on March 13 and the 23rd installment was released on June 20.
Let us tell you that before this, the 23rd installment of PM Kisan was released on June 20. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to West Bengal on June 20 this year, participated in an event organized at Tarakeswar in Hooghly district. During the program itself, PM Modi had transferred an amount of more than Rs 18,880 crore to the bank accounts of more than 9.44 crore eligible farmers across the country. The 22nd installment of PM Kisan was released on March 13 this year, when PM Modi was on his visit to Assam.
An amount of more than Rs 1051 crore will come into the bank accounts of more than 52.33 lakh farmers of Gujarat.
Gujarat Agriculture Minister said that more than 52.33 lakh farmer families in Gujarat will get financial assistance of more than Rs 1051 crore. Vaghani gave this information after reviewing the preparations for ‘PM Kisan Utsav Diwas’ to be organized in Bhildi. During his visit to Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi will also lay the foundation stone of 2 compressed biogas (CBG) plants being set up by Banas Dairy at Tharad and Radhanpur.
Under the Banas model, the number of bio-CNG plants will increase to 6.
75 tonnes of cow dung will be processed daily in Tharad plant. Whereas, the capacity of Radhanpur plant will be 100 tonnes per day. With the addition of these two plants, the number of bio-CNG plants under the Banas model will increase to 6. Their total cow dung processing capacity will be 515 tonnes per day. Bio-CNG made from cow dung is sold at concessional rates. Banaskantha Dairy is currently supplying about 6100 kg of bio-CNG daily. These 6 plants are estimated to reduce 33,400 to 34,600 tons of carbon emissions every year.
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