Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal. File photo
New Delhi, February 5
Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said that the Union Government had failed to double farmers’ income, increase employment, control inflation and improve the lot of the poor and downtrodden.
Harsimrat, a former Union Minister, while commenting on the President’s Address in the Parliament said, “Even though the President had stressed that improving the lot of farmers, poor and youth was the focus of the Union Government, the same has not been supported with data.”
The Bathinda MP said even though the Centre had promised to double the farmer income by 2022, this promise remained elusive. She cited the National Statistical Office (NSO), saying that, “the average income of agriculture households increased from Rs 8,000 per month in 2015 to only Rs 10,000 per month in 2019.”
She said the NSO data revealed that the average debt of farmers had increased by 58 per cent in the same period.
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