NEW DELHI, 18 April 2022: As on 28 March 2022, INR 663.9 crore have been sanctioned in Rajasthan for 824 projects and out of which INR 390.5 crore have been disbursed for 552 projects.
In Uttar Pradesh INR 280 crore has been sanctioned for 798 projects and out of which INR 141.7 crore have been disbursed for 530 projects.
On the basis of the share of the State/UT in agriculture production, the INR 1 lakh crore financing facility of Agri Infra Fund is tentatively distributed among all the states and UTs. (The tentative budget allocated to Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh over a period of six years (2020-21 to 2025-26) is INR 9015 crore and INR 12831 crore respectively.)
The number of beneficiaries in the country, State/UT-wise including Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh is as below:
| No. | State | No. of beneficiaries/ sanctioned projects under AIF |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madhya Pradesh | 2889 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 1537 |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 296 |
| 4 | Karnataka | 959 |
| 5 | Rajasthan | 824 |
| 6 | Telangana | 406 |
| 7 | Kerala | 121 |
| 8 | Maharashtra | 907 |
| 9 | Gujarat | 498 |
| 10 | Uttar Pradesh | 798 |
| 11 | Bihar | 88 |
| 12 | West Bengal | 395 |
| 13 | Haryana | 335 |
| 14 | Odisha | 255 |
| 15 | Chhattisgarh | 240 |
| 16 | Uttarakhand | 144 |
| 17 | Punjab | 218 |
| 18 | Himachal Pradesh | 47 |
| 19 | Assam | 42 |
| 20 | Delhi | 5 |
| 21 | Nagaland | 10 |
| 22 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 3 |
| 23 | Jharkhand | 31 |
| 24 | Arunachal Pradesh | 2 |
| 25 | Mizoram | 3 |
| 26 | Sikkim | 11 |
| 27 | Jammu and Kashmir | 15 |
| 28 | Manipur | 1 |
| 29 | Meghalaya | 0 |
| 30 | Chandigarh | 1 |
| 31 | Goa | 2 |
| 32 | Tripura | 0 |
| Grand Total | 11083 |
*The sanction figures include in principle sanctioned projects by cooperative banks
This information was given by the agriculture and farmers welfare minister Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Lok Sabha recently.
