Odisha: Beneficiaries to get Rs 2,000 KALIA assistance tomorrow

Bhubaneswar: Beneficiaries of Odisha Government’s Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme will receive financial assistance of Rs 2,000 each tomorrow, sources said.

The amount will be credit to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries through DBT mode on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya.

In March, the government had extended the scheme by three years. A proposal in this regard was approved at a meeting of the State Cabinet.

Launched before the General Elections in 2019, the KALIA yojana was to conclude on March 31, this year.

As per the decision, the eligible beneficiaries of the KALIA scheme will receive financial assistance of Rs 2,000 twice each year during the next three years on the occasions of Akshaya Tritiya and Nuakhai.

Through the KALIA scheme, the State Government aims to lend farmers with an all inclusive and flexible support system, ensuring accelerated agricultural prosperity.

Eligibility:

  • Small and Marginal Farmers are eligible to get benefit under support to cultivators for cultivation.
  • Land less agricultural households are eligible to get livelihood support under the scheme.
  • Vulnerable agricultural household covering vulnerable cultivators/ landless agricultural labourers are eligible to get financial assistance under the KALIA scheme. Vulnerable cultivators/ landless agricultural labourers include old age, disability, disease or any other reason. Out of the above three components viz., support to cultivators for cultivation, livelihood support for landless agricultural household and financial assistance to vulnerable agricultural household, one beneficiary will avail only one benefit as per the eligibility.
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