Ajay Mishra, Special Chief Secretary, Department of Energy, Forests Government of Telangana
9th KE Goa 2019: Being an IT hub, Andhra Pradesh, vis-à-vis Telangana has leveraged information technology to implement the various welfare schemes in the state, said Ajay Mishra, Special Chief Secretary, Department of Energy, Forests Government of Telangana while delivering keynote address at the 9th Elets Knowledge Exchange, Goa, on 11-12 May.
Speaking at the Summit, Mishra narrated the significance of technologies like Blockchain and AI which helped the state government to implement the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) over the past few years. “Rythu Bandhu or friend of farmers is a scheme based on DBT. A couple of schemes benefitting the farmers have been taken in the form of loan waiver, subsidy to the fertilizer companies and support prices.”
Mishra stated that the scheme has benefitted around 60 lakh farmers of the state, who are given Rs 4000 per acre to a farmer for each of the two crops they harvest in a year. “Technology has helped us in a big way to create the database of the farmers and their land holding records. This process has facilitated us in such a way that not a single farmer has to be physically present in the offices to collect their amount,” he said.
He further stated, “We leveraged IT applications to gather the account details of all the 60 lakh farmer beneficiaries and delivered cheques to their addresses and during the second round of implementation, we credited the amount directly to their bank accounts. It was a time consuming procedure nonetheless as there were 60 lakh farmers in questions and the amount was around Rs 6,000 crores.“
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