Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar guaranteed that the central government has decided to provide all the benefits of the PM Kisan Yojana to all the eligible farmers of Odisha.
In a reply to a letter by the BJP leader and Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the minister said that he will be guiding the officials of his ministry to take all the necessary steps available the benefits to the eligible farmers immediately.
Earlier Dharmendra Pradhan in a letter to Singh stated that he had written to Chief Minister on 1st March asking to resolve the problem of the stoppage in the payment of PM-KISAN benefit to all the eligible farmers in Odisha. Pradhan asked for the resolution of administrative and non-compliance issues for ensuring the payment of PM-KISAN installments to all eligible farmers of Odisha.
The Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment minister to the reply stated that on 3rd March the total disbursement of PM-KISAN installments to several eligible farmers in Odisha has come down due to delay in the lot opening, transaction failures, non-integration of banks with PFMS, rejection of beneficiaries with discrepancies in Aadhar name and registered farmer name, changes in LGD codes, low level of automation in some banks and non-receipt of payment success information from banks, amongst others.
Meanwhile, Pradhan informed that the PM-KISAN beneficiary lots are freed to the states before the disbursal of each installment for making secondary adjustments and that the Odisha Government has declared the stop payment instructions regarding reports of 14.5 lakh farmers for physical re-verification, only 23 lakh PM-KISAN beneficiaries will get the payment.
Later Pradhan asked Tomar to assemble a meeting between the officials of the Agriculture ministry and the Odisha government to solve all payment-related issues and secure the expenditure of PM-Kisan compensation to the farmers in Odisha. Even to expedite additional bulk window clearances, he requested Odisha Government to enable them to expeditiously redress the details of all beneficiaries who are not able to get the payment.
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