Govt. committed to #FinancialInclusion to all citizens. As on 6/1/21, #PMJDY accounts cross 41 Cr. and Zero Balance Accounts decline to 7.5% from 58% in March 2015. Clearly showing the use and adaption by every account holder, the Finance Ministry said

As per the SBI Ecowrap, the monthly income of farmers will go up by a sharp 35 per cent by just revisiting the current Kisan Credit Card (KCC) norms

The five point strategies suggested by the SBI includes setting up contract farming institution, inserting quantity guarantee clause instead of MSP, converting MSP to floor price of auction on eNAM, strengthening APMC market infrastructure and revisiting KCC scheme

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued refunds of over Rs 1,45,619 crore to more than 89.29 lakh taxpayers between April 1 and December 8.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in May had announced coverage to 2.5 crore farmers under the KCC scheme with a credit boost of Rs 2 lakh crore through a special saturation drive

As part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Package, the government has announced to cover 2.5 crore farmers under the KCC scheme with a credit boost of Rs 2 lakh crore through a special saturation drive

The state government has now notified the scheme from kharif 2020 to rabi 2022-23

Fiscal impact, or cost to government, of the relief package for coronavirus - touted to be worth Rs 20.97 lakh crore - is in the range of Rs 1.5- Rs 3.08 lakh crore, according to top ratings agencies

As fiscal stimulus generally refers to additional spending over and above budgetary allocation, the measures to boost income support announced in two tranches since Wednesday do not qualify as stimulus in true sense

Centre's loan disbursal to the agri sector is currently at a run rate of one-third of target for the fiscal - clearly a cause of concern

Three quick policy measures can be taken to ensure income and credit flows: direct procurement, direct cash transfers to farmers as well as landless labourers and interest subvention through cash transfers and in KCC mode

Made at a cost of around Rs 15,000 crore, Bundelkhand expressway will also be instrumental in connecting the Bundelkhand region with the Agra- Lucknow Expressway and the Yamuna Expressway

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

KCC mirrors the NPA trend in the overall agriculture portfolio. SBI's agriculture NPAs have trebled over the last three years. In fact, the public sector banks (PSBs), especially the Bank of India, IDBI Bank and other lenders, have also seen NPAs of over 15 per cent-plus

In FY19, farm loan NPAs jumped to 12.4 per cent or at 1.1 lakh crore of the Rs 8,79,000 crore of total bad loans in the system, up from Rs 48,800 crore or 8.6 per cent of the total NPAs of Rs 5,66,620 crore in FY16, a report by SBI Research said

Slamming states that have not enrolled with the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSY), Narendra Modi said that such petty politics has done great damage to the farming community

Union Budget 2019: During the launch of its Sankalp Patra (2019 Lok Sabha election manifesto), BJP had promised to provide short term new agriculture loans of up to Rs 1 lakh at 0 per cent interest rate for 1-5 years on the condition of prompt repayment of the principal amount

Presenting the Budget 2019 before the Lok Sabha, Goyal said that the pro-farmer policies by the government have helped the cultivators to attain record levels of agricultural produce.