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PM releases over Rs 20K cr under PM-KISAN; benefits reach Bengal farmers

Over 95 million farmers across the country received Rs 20,000 crore in the 8th instalment of PM-KISAN scheme

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The Centre claims that so far over Rs 135,000 crore has been transferred directly into the bank accounts of over 100 million farmers since the scheme started

Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday released the 8th instalment of PM-KISAN income support totalling over Rs 20,000 crore to 95 million farmers.
 
Under the scheme, a financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is transferred directly to the bank accounts of eligible farmers, payable in three equal four-monthly instalments of Rs 2,000 each. The scheme was launched in February 2019 but was implemented with effect from December 2018.
 
However, this was for the first time that the benefits reached the farmers of West Bengal as about 703,000 of them got Rs 2,000 each.
 
“Today, the first

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