Fraud found in ‘Wire Fencing Scheme’ portal to help farmers

YojanaJunagarh: The state government has announced assistance to farmers in a scheme to install barbed wire around the fields to protect their agricultural crops from cattle and other animals. This scheme was to remain open on the Kisan Portal from today till December 30. But today, just 20 minutes after the Barbed Wire scheme opened on the Kisan Portal, the scheme got closed on the Kisan Portal.

The portal closed within 20 minutes. A subsidy expenditure of Rs 200 per meter or 50 per cent of the total cost, whichever is lower, was planned. It was planned that online applications on Khedut portal would be accepted on first come, first serve basis as per the target allotted to that district. But today, just 20 minutes after its launch, the scheme was found closed on the Kisan Portal. There was a lot of anger among the farmers. Barbed Wire Assistance Scheme

Barbed Wire Assistance Scheme Farmers’ demand for area based assistance: After identifying the area in need of barbed wire, barbed wire assistance will be provided to the affected farmers of that area. Farmers are also demanding that the government should provide. Barbed wire is the first necessity in the villages of Gir region.
Then by giving importance to all the areas together and removing those districts where the need for barbed wire is very less, the farmers of the affected districts could be included under the scheme. But the state government has implemented this scheme on a uniform basis in the entire state, which the farmers are also opposing.