PATNA, Feb. 24 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released around Rs.22,000 crore with a single click into the accounts of around 9.8-crore farmers -- up from 9.60-crore the last time -- across the country through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) from Bhagalpur as the 19th instalment under the PM-KISAN scheme, a Central Sector Scheme launched on 24th February 2019 to provide annual financial assistance of Rs.6,000 per eligible farmer family.

"The NDA government -- be it at the Centre or under Nitish Kumar in Bihar -- has farmers' welfare at the top of the priority. Those who wiped out fodder of the cattle cannot work for it. The long rule of the Congress and the RJD did huge damage to Bihar," he said in an oblique reference to RJD ch...