Centre is cheating farmers in the name of Raita Fasal Bima Scheme: Eshwar Khandre
Bengaluru, September 4: KPCC working president Eshwar Khandre alleged that the central government was cheating the farmers in the name of Raita Fasal Bima Scheme.
Speaking to reporters at the KPCC office here on Tuesday, Khandre said that after independence, the Fasal Bima Yojana was the biggest cheating the country has ever seen. The Prime Minister has misled the farmers saying that it would help the farmers and bring double income, he alleged.
During the UPA government, the crop insurance was being given through Agricultural Corporation. But in 2016-17, the NDA government has introduced Prime Minister’s Raita Fasal Bima Yojana projecting that the farmers would get compensation for their crop damage immediately. The farmers and the opposition parties have believed that it would alleviate their problems. But they did not know the objective behind introducing the scheme was to benefit the corporate companies, he said.
During 2017-18, total 1,80,000 farmers have insured their crops in Bidar district and they have paid Rs 14.25 crore insurance premium and both the centre and state government have together contributed Rs 186 crore. But the farmers have got only Rs 84 lakh and the remaining Rs 185 crore was swindled by the private insurance companies, he alleged.
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SIR row: No interim stay on draft electoral roll publication, SC asks EC to accept Aadhaar, voter ID
New Delhi(PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the publication of draft electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar saying it would once for all decide the pleas against the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it would fix on July 29, the time schedule to conduct the final hearing of the matter.
Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for an NGO, said the electoral rolls should not be finalised in the interim and there should be an interim stay on the publication of the draft rolls.
The bench observed the last order of the top court noted the petitioners not pressing for an interim relief and, therefore, it couldn't be done now and matter would be interpreted once for all.
It asked the poll panel to continue accepting Aadhaar and voter ID for the SIR exercise in Bihar in compliance with its order saying both documents had a "presumption of genuineness".
The court said it prima facie agreed with the order of the top court and the EC accepted in its counter affidavit that Aadhaar, voter cards and ration cards were required to be accepted.
“As far as ration cards are concerned we can say they can be forged easily but Aadhaar and voter cards have some sanctity and have presumption of genuineness. You continue accepting these documents,” the bench said.
