Govt sanctions INR 12831 crore under National Agriculture Infra Financing Facility

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.