PM Modi to address farmers in Krishak Kalyan Samavesh rally today
PM Modi to address farmers in Krishak Kalyan Samavesh rally today
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Midnapore (West Bengal) [India], July 16 (NT): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver his address to a Krishak Kalyan Samavesh (farmer's welfare rally) on Monday at Midnapore town in West Bengal.

The prime meeting point of the address will be on the Centre's current decision to boost the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Kharif crops.

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Dilip Ghosh said that the prime minister's public meeting in Midnapore proves that Bengal is one of their top main concern states in the Lok Sabha poll.

The BJP has made steady inroads in a range of districts of West Bengal and has emerged as the main opposition party in the state after the recent panchayat polls and by-polls.

Worth mention here Modi Led Central Government on July 4 permitted the proposal to increse MSP by 50 per cent for 14 Kharif crops for the year 2018-19.

The meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi gave its nod to the proposal made by Union Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget 2018 of increasing the support price by one-and-a-half times of the production cost for Kharif crops.

MSP is considered to a price at which the government purchases crops from the farmers, to look after agriculture producers from fall in farm prices. (NT)

 

 

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