Union Agriculture Minister takes swipe at Rajiv Gandhi govt over pilferage of Central funds. Shivraj Singh Chouhan highlighted the gains from the Narendra Modi government’s direct benefit transfer (DBT), especially, under the PM-KISAN scheme. He also denied any prejudice against Tamil Nadu farmers in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme and offered to launch a special drive for the state. Nearly Rs 7,600 crore have so far been given to Tamil Nadu under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which is almost the highest among all states. The 19th instalment of the scheme was released on February 24 from Bhagalpur, Bihar, wherein Rs 22,000 crore were transferred to the bank accounts of 9.8 crore farmers, including 2.41 crore women farmers. The Minister also said earlier there were complaints that some ineligible farmers were benefiting from the scheme so we introduced the three-pronged strategy of land seeding, Aadhar seeding and e-KYC.