The Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha has decided to merge its farmer assistance project KALIA(Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) with PM-Kisan scheme.
Step are taken to minimize the impact on the state’s fiscal health.
After giving the first installments from the government contingency fund they is running out of money and smartly decided to converge it with the central scheme.
Even the opposition parties claim that the scheme was only meant to win the Assembly polls.
Over which Patnaik said, "Earlier they supported BJP by compromising politics but now they are also accepting their schemes”.