Fertiliser Ministry seeks additional Rs 23,000 crore to meet subsidy requirement for Q4FY19

16 Jan 2019 Evaluate

In order to meet the subsidy requirement for the Q4 (January-March) of 2018-19, the Fertiliser Ministry has sought an additional Rs 23,000 crore from the Finance counterpart. The fertiliser subsidy arrear touched about Rs 23,283 crore till December 2018, and some of it would be cleared with available funds and the remaining on receipt of additional funds. A balance fund of Rs 13,056 crore till December 2018, while the expenditure was about Rs 60,383.79 crore.

The government releases subsidy to the fertiliser companies on regular basis subject to the availability of budget. For FY19, the government had budgeted Rs 73,439.85 crore for payment of fertiliser subsidy. The subsidy is not being released to farmers directly, it is given on various soil nutrients to fertiliser companies in public, private and cooperative sector.

The Fertiliser Ministry is giving subsidy through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme, which is different from the traditional DBT implemented for LPG. Under the fertiliser DBT system, the soil nutrient is made available to farmers/beneficiaries at a subsidised prices and 100 per cent subsidy on the fertiliser grades is released to the companies instead of the beneficiaries on the basis of actual sales made by the retailers.

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