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Parliament Committee’s Recommendations on Farm Workers’ Welfare
March 18 , 2025
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- A parliamentary panel recommended that the benefits under the central income support scheme (PM-Kisan) be extended to farm labourers.
- Nearly 55 per cent of the country’s population is engaged in the farm sector but not all as landowners.
- Currently, only the landholder farmer families receive an annual Rs 6,000 each under the scheme in three equal instalments of Rs 2,000 every four months.
- There are around 14 crore such landholder farmers in the country, but not all cultivate their land themselves.
- The panel has recommended financial assistance of Rs 100 per quintal of paddy to farmers as compensation for the cost incurred in collecting ‘Parali’ (paddy residue).
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