Modi blows Bihar poll bugle from Bhagalpur with 19th farmers’ incentive

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released around ₹22,000 crore with a single click into the accounts of around 9.8-crore farmers -- up from 9.60-crore the last time -- across the country through Direct Benefit Transfer from Bhagalpur as the 19th instalment under the PM-KISAN scheme, a Central Sector Scheme launched on 24th February 2019 to provide annual financial assistance of ₹6,000 per eligible farmer family. Maintaining that Bihar would emerge as a major hub for the food processing industry in eastern India, Modi said a National Institute of Food Technology and Entrepreneurship and three new Centers of Excellence in agriculture would be set up in the state, one of which will be in Bhagalpur. “Those soaked in corruption can never do bring about any positive change and the NDA government under Nitish Kumar has strived to pull Bihar out the mess and take it forward,” he added, listing out the achievements of his government and a slew of big announcements for Bihar in the Union Budget to take Bihar forward. Bihar share Into the sixth year of game-changing scheme, a “Kisan Samman Samaroh”was also organised in Bhagalpur by the Union Ministry of Agriculture in coordination with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India, Ministry of Railways, Government of India and Government of Bihar.