1 June 2022: Wheat Shipment, Union Home Minister, PM Garib Kalyan Samelan, PM Modi, Fuel Price Update,

1 June 2022

• Fuel Price Update: Prices of Petrol and Diesel Remain Steady as of June 1

  On Wednesday, the OMCs held their petrol and diesel rates steady for the twelfth day in a row. In May, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a drop in excise duty on petrol of 8 rupees per liter and diesel of 6 rupees per liter. Today's petrol price in Delhi is Rs 96.72 per liter, down from Rs 105.41 per liter last week, while diesel will cost Rs 89.62 per liter, down from Rs 96.67 last week.

• Haryana Farmers May Abandon Their Land Due to a Water Shortage

  According to the Haryana Water Resources Authority, 3,000 of the 6885 villages are water-stressed, while another two thousand are on the verge of extinction. The administration has designated 1,780 settlements as being in the red category, which means they are seriously groundwater strained.

• PM Garib Kalyan Samelan Streamed Live by the Agriculture Directorate

  The Directorate of Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Jammu hosted a live feed of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's release of the 11th payment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, at Baba Jitto Kisan Kendra Jammu today. The event was coordinated by Atul Dulloo, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS)/ Financial Commissioner (FC) Agriculture Production Department (APD), JK UT, and presided over by Sh K. K. Sharma, Director Agriculture Jammu.

• Amit Shah: The Agriculture-Friendly Programs of PM Modi's Government Have Given Farmers Genuine Support

  Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the Modi government has done more work than any other government in the past eight years to make farmers self-sufficient and that its agriculture-friendly initiatives have given farmers real power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed Rs 21,000 crore to 80 crore farmers as the eleventh installment of the Kisan Samman Nidhi, according to the home minister.

• Turkey Rejects an Indian Wheat Shipment Due to Phytosanitary Concerns, Says a Report

  Turkish authorities denied an Indian wheat consignment authorization due to phytosanitary concerns, leading a ship to return on May 29, according to dealers reported by S&P Global Commodity Insights on Tuesday. According to a report from S&P Global Commodity Insights, the MV Ince Akdeniz, which is loaded with 56,877 tonnes of durum wheat, is on its way back to Gujarat's Kandla port.