Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan planted saplings at the IARI Campus, PUSA, on Thursday as part of the "Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam" (Plant4Mother) campaign.
While answering questions related to Crop Insurance Scheme in the Lok Sabha today, the minister said farmers and farmer organizations had many objections in the previous schemes.
The chief minister sought approval for the inclusion of the remaining tribal areas of the state in the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and other proposals.
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan, on Friday, emphasised the need to promote natural farming practices. He said that the Central government was considering offering subsidies to encourage natural farming methods.
Madhya Pradesh polls: BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya flags off hi-tech campaign vehicles
At BJP headquarter today, Scindia joined the BJP and hit out at the Congress for "living in denial".
It looks like tensions between the Modi-Shah duo and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan have intensified following the BJP’s defeat in the recent state election.
As soon as it looked like the Congress would not touch the majority mark on its own and its victory margin was narrow, the BJP top brass began working the phones to the two BSP MLAs and Independents.
There are 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh, where the saffron party has been in power since 2003 and Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been the chief minister from November 2005.
Singh was speaking at the launch of a book 'Fables of Fractured Times' by former union minister Manish Tewari.
