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- Presidential Address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, highlighting the new governments legislative agenda for the upcoming session.
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- President Ram Nath Kovind supporting, simultaneous polls, terming it as “development-oriented” which would facilitate accelerated development and asking MPs to seriously ponder on the proposal.
- Kovind also flagged the government’s mov
(1) to push for triple talaq Bill,
(2) to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) on a priority basis and
(3) the strong response to terror after the attack in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir
- The President also spoke about major policy initiatives of the government such as
- Expansion of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, to all landowning farm families was highlighted by the President
- Earlier, the scheme was only open to small and marginal farm families owning less than two hectares of land.
- This will lead to an increased allocation of estimated 90,000 crore from previous 72,000 crore, adding M Kovind said 12,000 crore had already been disbursed in the past three months.
- Pension scheme - Contributory pension scheme for farmers above the age of 60.
- Farm sector
(1) Centre plans to invest 25 lakh crore in the farm sector in the coming years to boost agricultural productivity
(2) A 13,000-crore scheme to fund treatment of common diseases in cattle.
(3) Grameen Bhandaran Yojana to provide village-level storage facilities for farm produce.
(4) to create 10,000 new farmer producer organisations.
(5) A new department for fisheries development to usher in a new blue revolution.
(6) committee of Chief Ministers was being set up to look into structural reforms in the field of agriculture.
- For higher education, the President said the government to strive for increase the number of seats in the country’s higher education by create two crore additional seats by 2024.
Source
The Hindu