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Farmers want job guarantee scheme expanded
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI,
JAN. 11.
Agriculture experts today suggested to the Government to replace the system of minimum support price for specified crops by a system of remunerative prices and a participatory price insurance scheme and to expand the national employment guarantee scheme to provide employment beyond 100 days a year. They also wanted that the scheme should not be confined to the below poverty line population and to introduce a self-selection scheme devised by an appropriate choice of the wage rate.
The suggestions came during a pre-budget meeting that the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, had today. In the wide-ranging discussions that followed, proposals were made for provision of capital subsidy to farmers to build water storage pits and establishment of water resource development funds at the State level. Higher allocation was sought for the rural water management schemes initiated in the current year's budget and a demand was made to strengthen cooperatives for improving credit delivery to agriculture and allied sectors.
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