Govt. Welfare Schemes
PM-PRANAM
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the PM-PRANAM (PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Generation, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth) Scheme.
- The new scheme would promote use of nutrient-based bio-fertilizers for sustainable agriculture.
- The scheme include a bouquet of various schemes which would boost farmer’s income, strengthen natural/ organic farming, rejuvenate soil productivity, and ensure food security.
- The CCEA also approved continuation of the urea subsidy scheme to ensure constant availability of urea to the farmers at the same price of Rs.242/45 kg per bag.
- Rs.1,451.84 crore has been approved for Market Development Assistance (MDA) for promoting organic fertilizers from Gobardhan plants.
- Fermented organic manures (FOM)/liquid FOM/phosphate rich organic manures (PROM) produced as by-product from bio-gas plants/compressed biogas (CBG) plants set up under umbrella Gobardhan initiative will be promoted.
CM Stalin inaugurates new buildings, portal for farmers.
- Chief Minister inaugurated completed projects at various locations and a portal to help farmers known the soil health of their land.
- He also released a coffee table book, Netta Netta Panaimarame, on palmyra trees.
- Farmers could access the portal, http://tnagriculture.in/mannvalam, to know the soil heath status through a geo-referenced survey number.
- Farmers could also get other details such as pH, organic carbon and calcareousness.
- He also inaugurated 26 District “Poomalai Vaniga Valagam”(commercial complexes) constructed by the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women.
- He handed over loans to women self-help groups under the “Vazhndhu Kattuvom” project.
- Financial Assistance to “Team Sea Shakti” of Kumaraguru College of Technology in Coimbatore, the only Indian team selected to take part in Monaco Energy Boat Challenge to create a hydrogen-powered boat aimed at commercializing the power system for the benefit of fishermen.
