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Prime Minister's thinking focuses on the welfare of farmers and laborers: Vice President

News On Time Desk 28 September 2023

New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has given 2 gifts to Rajasthan on behalf of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. He inaugurated the Regional Research Center of the Directorate of Groundnut Research of ICAR and the Trainee House of the Central Institute of Arid Horticulture at Bikaner, while laid the foundation stone of the Regional Shree Anna (Millets) Research Center at Gudamalani, Barmer.

Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar participated in it virtually. Union Minister of State for Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Chaudhary, regional public representatives, Director General of ICAR Dr. Himanshu Pathak, scientists and farmers also participated in the program.

In his address in Bikaner, Vice President Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar said that the Central Government has taken a historic step by introducing the Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament. Praising Bikaner's namkeen, bhujia and rasgulla, he said that Bikaner's peanuts will be branded, there is a lot of business potential in this area. The Vice President said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, while telling the world about the importance of millets, got 2023 declared the International Year of Millets by the United Nations.

Praising the success of organizing G-20 under the chairmanship of India, he said that India has done what no one had ever imagined. Serving Shree Anna's dishes in global events like G-20 is an honor for every village, poor and farmer. Due to the hard work of our farmers, the country not only became self-sufficient in food grains, but today it is also exporting food grains to the world.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, more than 80 crore people are being given free ration, which has been possible only due to the hard work of the farmers. The Prime Minister's thinking is focused on farmer-laborer welfare, for which the Center has taken several steps, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi is one of them.

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