Some of the officers assigned the tasks are Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, Additional Secretary, responsible for Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. However, Kidwai is now shifted to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.Another Additional Secretary Maninder Kaur Dwivedi has been assigned the job to look after Gujarat and Odisha.Muktanad Agarwal, IAS, assigned as nodal officer to look after Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu whereas Samuel P Kumar, joint secretary, is the nodal officer for Assam; Ruchika Gupta, adviser, for Telangana; C F Joseph, adviser, for Kerala. Another Joint Secretary level officer Priya Ranjan appointed as nodal officer for Uttarakhand and Himachal.Chouhan has been introducing farmer-friendly schemes ahead of the annual Union budget. Earlier this month, he sought suggestions from state agriculture ministers.Chouhan also announced that the Centre is working to ensure that farmers will not have to pay interest on storing their produce in warehouses.SC to hear plea on Dallewal health, MSP law todayAs per the Supreme Court’s causelist, a two-judge bench of the court, led by Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh, would hear on Wednesday a plea over Dallewal’s health along with the farmer leader’s plea for a direction to the Centre for implementing a proposal, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price on crops, made to the protesting farmers in 2021 after the farm laws were repealed. Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on an indefinite fast for over 50 days.
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