20mn Bihar farmers to get digital IDs for perks

The state agriculture department will provide digital identification cards (IDs) to around 20 million farmers in Bihar as part of the Agri Stack project to make a digital database of the farmers for disbursement of incentives and subsidies under various farm schemes, including the PM Kisan Yojana.

- Anirban Guha Roy

In every panchayat of the state, special camps would be held from January 6 to January 9 for preparing the digital ID cards of farmers and the department has set a target of completing the project in the next one month, officials said.

Under the exercise, there would be a comprehensive farmers registry carrying all profile details of each farmer and their land records that would be collected from the revenue and land reforms department.

The agriculture department and revenue and land reforms department are working on this project of preparing the farmers registry in close coordination, officials said.