Summary:
Aimed at saving subsidy outgo and plug the pilferages of the subsidy amount, the government has introduced the DBT system and agriculture departments in the two districts have distributed PoS to private fertiliser dealers and Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACCS) to implement the scheme. This would help the government to release the subsidy to the fertiliser companies for the exact quantity of fertiliser sold to the farmers, thus preventing any kind of malpractice. more-inThe Department of Agriculture in the two districts is all set to roll out the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) fertiliser subsidy scheme to farmers on September 1, making sale of subsidised fertilisers only through Point of Sale (PoS) machines to farmers who have Aadhaar cards. Under the scheme, the PoS machines would capture details of the farmers, retailers and the transactions whenever the farmers bought the fertilisers at subsided rate. The department in Ramanathapuram has completed distribution of 161 PoS – 64 to private dealers and 97 to PACCS on Tuesday..