{"id":315007,"date":"2019-09-12T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315007"},"modified":"2019-09-12T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:59:32","slug":"prime-minister-modi-launches-pradhan-mantri-kisan-maan-dhan-yojana-from-ranchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-modi-launches-pradhan-mantri-kisan-maan-dhan-yojana-from-ranchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana from Ranchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315008 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PM-Modi-ranchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/PM-Modi-ranchi.jpg 666w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/PM-Modi-ranchi-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>In another major effort to secure the lives of the farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana at Ranchi, Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Scheme shall secure the lives of 5 Crore Small and Marginal Farmers by providing a minimum pension of Rs 3000 per month, to those who attain 60 years of age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister also launched the National Pension Scheme for the Traders and The Self-Employed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The scheme aims at providing a minimum assured pension of Rs 3000, to small traders and self &#8211; employed after attaining the age of 60 Years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 3 Crore Small traders would be benefitted from the scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi stated that the electoral promise of a strong government that will fulfil your aspirations is delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI said that every farmer family of the country will get the benefit of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi after the formation of the new government. Today, more than 21 thousand crore rupees have been deposited in the accounts of about six and a half crore farmer families of the country. There are also 8 lakh farmer families of Jharkhand, in whose account about two hundred and fifty crores have been deposited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated \u201cDevelopment is our priority as well as commitment. Our government is trying to provide a shield of social security to every Indian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In an effort to empower all, the Prime Minister today launched 462 Ekalavya Model Schools across the country in Tribal Dominated Areas. The schools would focus to provide quality upper primary, secondary and senior secondary level education to ST Students in these areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Multi-Modal Transport Terminal at Sahibganj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday I also have the privilege of inaugurating the Sahibganj multi-modal terminal. This is not just another project but is giving a new option of transportation to this entire region. This waterway will connect Jharkhand not only with the whole country, but also with foreign countries. From this terminal, the tribal brothers and sisters, farmers here, will now be able to access their produce in the markets across the country more easily, PM added.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister also inaugurated the New Vidhan Sabha Building of Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi exhorted the country to reduce the usage of Single-Use Plastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Referring to the Swachhata Hi Seva Programme launched on\u00a0September 11, the Prime Minister said, \u201cSince yesterday, the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign has started in the country. Under this campaign, by October 2, we have to collect single-use plastic in our homes, schools, offices. On October 2, the day of Gandhiji&#8217;s 150th birth anniversary, we have to remove that plastic pile\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another major effort to secure the lives of the farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana at Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Scheme shall secure the lives of 5 Crore Small and Marginal Farmers by providing a minimum pension of Rs 3000 per month, to those who attain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[316,1382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315009,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315007\/revisions\/315009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}