: The Himachal Pradesh cabinet on Thursday decided to implement Rs 224 crore Saur Sinchayee Yojana under which 90 per cent financial assistance will be provided to individual small and marginal farmers and 80 per cent subsidy will be provided to individual medium and big farmers. Similarly, 100 per cent financial assistance will be provided to a group of farmers of small and marginal category of Kisan Vikas Sanghs and Krishak Vikas Sangh, registered bodies of farmers. Under this scheme, 5,850 agriculture solar pumping sets will be made available to the farmers. The cabinet also approved the launch of Rs 174.50 crore flow under which an area of 7152.30 hectare will be brought under assured irrigation benefiting over 9580 farmers of the state. Follow and connect with us on , ,
The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has approved the roll-out of an INR2.24bn ($32m) irrigation scheme, which will make 5,850 agriculture solar pumping sets available to farmers. In a statement on its website, the government said that it had been working with farmers for several years and was now ready to roll out the scheme.