Until now, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India and National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Ltd – the two procurement agencies for pulses and onions – were making the payments to farmer federations or cooperatives, which in turn were paying the farmers. This process has been time consuming and so the government is planning to replace it with direct benefit transfer (DBT).
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The Union government has outlined strategies to tackle rural unemployment and boost job growth in non-metro cities. The rise of satellite cities like Sri City,