KARACHI: Sindh Cabinet decided to launch Kisan Card to support farmers as per ‘promise’ made by Pakistan Peoples’ Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in his election campaign Presiding over meeting, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that Bilawal Bhutto has given clear instructions for issuance of Kissan cards and preparing plan to carry out development initiatives in every district.

CM Murad constituted committee with Minister of Irrigation, SMBR and Secretary of Agriculture to start developing data and submit their recommendations.

He said that Kisan Cards would be issued to farmers benefiting from various government programmes. He added that it aimed at consolidating recipient’s information for transparent and efficient implementation of these interventions.

Murad said that his government would develop digital platform and provide all district administrations with user logins to enter details of farmers in their jurisdictions.

Information added to system would pertain to demographics, contact details, crops and landholding patterns, livestock, irrigation system and mechanisation.

He said that this initiative would result in an appropriate allocation of schemes to right farmers, ease in broadcasting messages to larger masses and creation of centralised database.  He said that Kisan card holders would be given preference in procurement of wheat and held in case of natural disasters.

It was also discussed and agreed that farmer possessing up to 12 acres of land and cultivating him/herself would qualify for Kisan Card for which survey and registration work would be started within week so that card could be issued within six months.

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 21 2024

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