New Delhi: The government has launched the Kisan Rin portal along with the Weather Information Network Data Systems (WINDS) manual. The portal serves as an integrated hub for comprehensive view of farmer data, loan disbursement specifics, interest subvention claims, and scheme utilisation progress. The government also launched the Ghar Ghar KCC campaign to achieve saturation of the scheme with it going live on October 1, 2023.
With the launch of the new portal, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had asked banks to provide all relevant data by December 31, 2023, for the Kisan Rin Portal. She was concerned over the slow progress of computerisation in Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) and urged RRB management to ramp up the process to strengthen credit delivery in rural areas.
The FM also unveiled a manual of the Weather Information Network Data Systems (WINDS) portal. This portal was launched in July and it leverages advanced weather data analytics to provide stakeholders with actionable insights on weather for informed decision-making in agriculture. This comprehensive manual also provides stakeholders with an in-depth understanding of the portal’s functionalities, data interpretation, and effective utilisation. It thereby empowers farmers, policymakers and various agricultural entities to make well-informed choices.
The portal also addresses the need of parametric crop insurance scheme of the ministry, in addition to non-scheme parametric insurance programs for crop risk mitigation and disaster risk reduction and mitigation being run by the insurance industry.
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