MUMBAI :
THE Maharashtra Government
on Tuesday rolled out a new
financial scheme under which
more than one crore farmers
in the State will be paid Rs 6,000
annually. The scheme, Namo
Shetkari MahasanmanYojana,
was approved at a Cabinet
meeting chaired by Chief
Minister Eknath Shinde here.
Talking to reporters after the
meeting, Shinde said the
amount was in addition to Rs
6,000 paid to farmers in instalments per year by the Centre
under the Pradhan Mantri
Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.
More than one crore cultivators will benefit from the
State Government’s scheme,
Deputy Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis said.
Fadnavis, who is also the State’s
Finance Minister, had
announced the scheme in the
2023-24 Budget which he presented in the Assembly in
March.