NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday marked his first journey to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi since being re-elected for a 3rd time period. He launched the seventeenth instalment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.
Within the current Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi gained a decisive victory in Varanasi, defeating Congress candidate Ajay Rai by a margin of 1,52,513 votes.PM Modi secured 6,12,970 votes, whereas Rai garnered 4,60,457 votes. Bahujan Samaj Social gathering candidate Ather Jamal Lari got here in third with 33,766 votes.
PM Modi can be scheduled to supply prayers on the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and take part within the Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat. He’ll keep in a single day in Varanasi and depart for Bihar on Wednesday morning.
The seventeenth instalment of the PM-KISAN scheme goals to profit over 9.26 crore farmers with a disbursement of greater than Rs 20,000 crore. Certificates will probably be handed out to over 30,000 self-help teams skilled as Krishi Sakhis to function para extension staff.
The occasion, attended by Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and several other state ministers, noticed farmers receiving schooling on good agricultural practices, rising applied sciences, climate-resilient agriculture, and methods to confirm their PM-KISAN beneficiary and fee standing. They can even be taught to make use of the Kisan-eMitra Chatbot.