JAIPUR: The blame game is on over the implementation of the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in the state.While the BJP leaders allege that the Congress ruled state had not submitted data of eligible farmers for the PM-Kisan Scheme, the state govt officials allege that Centre’s frequent changes in the rules of the scheme leading to the delay.Announced in the interim budget this year, the Rs 75,000-crore scheme envisages an annual transfer of Rs 6,000 per year to around 12 crore farmers who hold cultivable landholdings up to two hectares.But the process requires state government’s co-operation at every step from starting with sending the beneficiary data to the Centre, which screens it for missing information and discrepancies in the names of bank account holders and applicants.This sanitised data is sent back to the state governments which validate it through district collectors. After this, the final beneficiary list is sent to the state governments, which are required to sign fund-transfer requests, a prerequisite for the Centre to deposit the money in to the banks accounts of farmers. The Centre alleges that the state had not yet singed the fund transfer request.But the officials in the state government said the frequent changes in procedure by the Centre is leading to the delay. After the parliament election was announced the Centre in major shift said that Aadhaar seeding of the beneficiaries is compulsory.On March 11, the ministry of agriculture and farm welfare said, “The scheme will be implemented through Aadhaar linked electronic data base containing details of all members of small and marginal land holder farmers whose names appear in the land records. For transfer of the first instalment of financial benefits, Aadhaar number shall be collected … or alternate prescribed documents for identity verification.”On the next day on another letter to the states said that the Centre had made an amendment to the guideline 8.1 of the scheme had relaxed of mandatory Aadhaar seeding of data base before release of the second instalment. But it said availability of Aadhaar is mandatory. The name of the beneficiary as provided under Aadhaar card requires both demographic and biometric authentication as well which the officials said is time consuming.

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