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ForewOrd

Odisha is one of the fastest growing states displaying extensive growth As is the case with many states, Odisha has farmers who have stuck
in almost all sectors in recent times. Our mission for Odisha is to to traditional crops like paddy where there is procurement at the
provide equal opportunities to people of all sectors and make them state level, even though research suggests it isn’t the most
partners of development and growth. In sync with our commitment to profitable crop. Through better information dissemination and
farmers, we have embarked on KALIA, sowing the seeds of a promising financial incentives, we are encouraging the farmers to shift to other
future for the farmers of Odisha. With inclusion of landless labourers high-value income-generating activities. For example, the landless
and sharecroppers in the ambit of the scheme, ensuring the utmost will be supported with a unit cost of Rs 12,500, under the KALIA
transparency in its delivery through impeccable use of data, we are scheme for activities like poultry farming, goat rearing, mushroom
confident of the benefits that KALIA will bring for the farmers. cultivation, beekeeping, and fishery. The attempt is to eventually
motivate the farmer to move away from paddy to something of
The booklet lays the overview of the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood greater value gradually, at least in those areas where the suitability
and Income Augmentation (KALIA) and its design and delivery on of other crops is better. It’s all about putting more money into a
ground. The Odisha Government recognizes the necessity to farmer’s pocket through KALIA, a Quasi-Universal Basic Income
continuously improve on data creation, use and management (QUBI) initiative.
capabilities, and aims to rebuild a more resilient data infrastructure to
improve governance and service delivery for its citizens. Data-backed We wish to acknowledge and sincerely thank all the field
decision and policy making is the future and with KALIA, we have laid functionaries, the different line departments, district and state
the cornerstone for a digital Odisha. This is not the end; but only the officials, external stakeholders and partners who participated in this
beginning to ensure that each and every eligible farm family gets the exercise, who assisted in making the delivery of KALIA a success.
benefits of this scheme; now and for the years to come. Without their valuable insights, active support and logistical
arrangements, the scheme would not have been productive.

Shri Naveen Patnaik DR. Arun Kumar Sahoo

Chief Minister, Odisha Minister of Agriculture& F.E., Fisheries&ARD and Higher Education

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ForewOrd

The idea and implementation of KALIA was a singularly innovative Direct Income Transfer is an important tool in the policy-maker’s
feat which was appreciated not only in India but found appreciation quiver for enhancing the entrepreneurial potential of farmers with
by many others abroad. For the first time, the state attempted, limited means and facing challenging circumstances. Due to
rather successfully to pool inputs, resources and efforts at the field dependence on informal lending at exorbitant interest rates, and
level as well as at the level of headquarters, to deliver a program, recognizably unsustainable support such as loan waivers, serving
designed to reach every eligible farming household in record time. only to limit a farming households’ appetite for risk.

Ever since the announcement in December 2018, many hands and In view of the problems at the level of the farming household and the
minds worked together to give the unique idea a concrete shape. health of the economy, a fresh attempt at rethinking solutions was
Contributions were received from a large number of distinguished necessitated. Leading organizations in technology, banking, IEC,
partners within and outside the government. Each one of them policy and governance integrated their efforts to make significant
working tirelessly to identify challenges, solutions and headway on a data-backed policy creation and delivery
improvements that merged beautifully to create the systemic championing elements of commitment, transparency, and
infrastructure and collaboration.
data that we have today.
I hope this system will be effective and well adopted by the farmers of
This information booklet captures some moments and methods Odisha. I congratulate all the stakeholders that have engaged in the
that remain in our memory and will serve as guidance to future journey that has been - KALIA
policies and practices to come.

Shri Asit Kumar Tripathy, IAS Dr. Saurabh Garg, IAS

Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha Principal Secretary, DA & FE

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What is KALIA?
Krushak Assistance for Livelihood & Income
Augmentation (KALIA) is a comprehensive
welfare solution conceived by the Government of
Odisha as a Direct Income Transfer (DIT) scheme.
KALIA was designed to provide financial
assistance to small and marginal farmers (SMF)
including sharecroppers and tenant farmers as
well as landless agricultural households (LAH) in
the state. By design, the scheme excludes
medium and large farmers.

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Comprehensive Assistance
for Cultivators
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Comprehensive Assistance
for Cultivators

5,000 *
per season

₹
Financial assistance of 5,000/- per farm family has been envisaged to be small and marginal farmers to enable them
to purchase quality farm inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides as well as expend on other investments. This component
of the scheme has been operational since the Rabi season of 2018-19.

* ₹ ₹
Under PM-KISAN, small and marginal farmers receive 6,000 annually through three instalments of 2,000 each. After the KALIA scheme was synchronised
₹
with PM-KISAN, the state government decided that all SMF would be given a top up with 4,000 per year from the 2020-21 fiscal year, so that they will get
₹
total a sum of   10,000 annually, i.e., ₹6,000 from PM-KISAN and ₹4,000, from KALIA. In essence, SMF would still get ₹10,000 annually as intended under KALIA.

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Comprehensive Assistance
for Landless Labourer Families
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Comprehensive Assistance
for Landless Labourer Families
12,500
in three installments & livelihood support from
NINE available choices

₹
Financial assistance of 12,500/- has been provided to each landless agricultural household to encourage livelihood
generation. The families are nudged to diversify their sources of income to allied activities of agriculture, such as small
goat rearing units, dual purpose low-input technology birds, mini-layers units, duckery units, fishery kits for fishermen,
mushroom cultivation units, dairy, tasar farming and bee-keeping units. The inputs and the training are optional, and are
provided by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Empowerment. This component of the scheme has been operational
since the Rabi season of 2018-19.

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Landless Agricultural Households
- Livelihood Packages

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Landless Agricultural Households
- Livelihood Packages
Small Goat Dual Purpose Low Input Duckery Mini-layer Dairy
Rearing Unit Technology Birds Unit unit

6-12 month old goats of at least Thirty, 4 week old birds coupled with Fifty, 4 week old ducks supplied Forty, 4 week old birds supplied with Livelihood package to assist
10 kg body-weight of specific routine vaccinations in conjunction with close coordination between close coordination between Block farm families engaging in
varieties with insurance, animal with Livestock Inspectors, Feeder/ Block Veterinary Officers, Veterinary Officers, Panchayat Level dairy and related activities
sheds provided in convergence Drinker/ Poultry feed from local Panchayat Level Committee Committee Members and the banks for livelihood has also been
with MGNREGA markets, bird sheds provided in Members and the banks receiving payments and updating MIS envisaged under the
convergence with MGNREGA receiving payments and at the block level. bird sheds provided in scheme.
updating MIS at the block level. convergence with MGNREGA.

Fishery Honey Bee Mushroom tasar

Unit Unit Unit Farmer
Beneficiary to procure the desired Beneficiaries prioritized based on adjacency 15-20 beds and mushroom spawn Under the livelihood component,
quality and specification of net from to forest area/ year-round flora. Bee boxes, procured from certified sources. assistance in the form of small
and other inputs directly from the hives, equipment to be procured from Beneficiaries prioritized based on scale tasar farming units will be
technical institutions/ recognised private
empaneled vendors/ suppliers which availability of non-saline water, access to provided to assist farm families.
nurseries. Support extended by Block Level
are to be selected and approved by shed, paddy straw, spawn etc. Farmers to
Horticulture Officers in grounding assets,
the Directorate of Fisheries. purchase spawn, polupropylene, field staff
maintaining database and market linkages.
Subsequent instalments released upon to assist in training, harvest practices,
verification of assets by GP level committee. storage etc. Convergence with MGNREGA
for construction of shed.

3,15,967 Families Recorded Animal Resources as a Choice of Livelihood 5,437 families Recorded Fishery as a Choice of Livelihood

16,232 Families Recorded Horticulture as a Choice of Livelihood * Implementation in Progress

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Scholarship for children of KALIA
beneficiaries
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Scholarship for children of KALIA
beneficiaries

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technical/professional undergraduate government colleges in Odisha
courses selected for KALIA scholarship participated in KALIA scholarship

Under the KALIA Chhatra Brutti component, the Government of Odisha will bear the educational expenses of
the children of farmers who benefitted from the KALIA scheme. The benefit will provide financial support to
children who have enrolled in government-run professional colleges, on the basis of merit. KALIA Scholarship
will be operationalized in 2020-21 after grounding of state common scholarship portal.

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Chief Minister’s Launch
Six City-wise Disbursement Events
bargarh keonjhar

ganjam dhenkanal

pURI kendrapara

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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Evolution
April 2018 May 2018 August 2018 October 2018
₹250 Crore Discussion on provision of Discussion on creation of Discussion on providing
earmarked in the State funds for prioritized calamity- ₹
Corpus fund of 1L rested with insurance benefits and
Budget for 2018-19 for prone Gram Panchayats. Gram Panchayat level educational support in priority
Farmer Welfare. functionaries for farmer blocks on the basis of incidence
welfare. of pest attacks, drought and
reported farmer suicides.

January 2019 December 2018 November 2018

Algorithms for data-joining Cabinet approves proposal First inter-ministerial
designed using the principles by Department of meeting held under the
of Unification, Verification and Agriculture and formalizes chairmanship of the state's
Exclusion. First installment the launch of KALIA. Finance Minister to examine
covering nearly 12,45,490 implementation issues and
farmers disbursed. take corrective action.

May 2019 November 2019 December 2019 March 2020

51,05,290 farm families Second installment under KALIA scheme was synergized 85,672 new beneficiaries
supported through the KALIA scheme disbursed to with PM-KISAN for SMF selected from low count GPs
implementation of the first two 47,79,381 beneficiaries. beneficiaries. While KALIA’s and assisted with both
components of KALIA - Support budget was reduced, the instalments. Taking total
for Cultivators and Support for assistance amount to SMF was beneficiaries to 48,65,053.
Landless Labourer Households. ₹
kept the same at 10,000 per
year.

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Total Beneficiaries by Districts
sundergarh
1,80,196

MAYURbjanj
3,18,005
jharsuguda
53,241

keonjhar
deogarh 2,29,630 balasore
sambalpur 49,270 2,84,567
1,03,014
bargarh
1,87,494

sonepur Augul Bhadrak

1,51,363
87,286 1,50,315 dhenkanal
1,49,058 jajpur
boudh 1,93,050
63,136
nuapada bolangir cuttack kendrapara
89,214 2,36,868 2,44,721 1,70,670

nayagarh khurdha jagatsinghpur

kandhamal 1,17,327 1,41,447 1,10,336
1,10,216
puri
1,77,663
Kalahandi
2,21,378
nawarangpur
1,71,531 Ganjam
4,40,783

rayagada
1,25,070
gajapati
84,124

koraput
1,60,880

Malkangiri
63,200

60,000 1,57,500 2,55,000 3,52,500 4,50,000

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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How is KALIA different from a
loan waiver?
KALIA is not a loan-waiver but a direct income transfer scheme. Under the scheme, the government provides
cash assistance to farm families to assist in the purchase of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, labour
and other investments. Additionally, each landless agricultural household receives assistance for alternative
livelihood generation in agriculture and allied activities such as small goat rearing, mini-layer, duckery,
fishery, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping etc.

The rationale for providing such assistance is to break away from the cycle of loans and loan waivers.
Second, to curb the number of bad debts the state accrues as a consequence of loan waivers, KALIA
augments cash availability among farmers at the beginning of the agriculture cycle and provides them
insurance against economic shocks caused by unforeseen events.

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Who is the beneFIciary?

32,55,651 16,09,402
small and marginal landless agricultural
farmer families households
Under KALIA, the benefits flow to farm families, comprising all citizens who share a common ration number.
Farm families include small and marginal farmers (owners of up to 2 hectare of land), and landless
agricultural households. By design, the scheme excludes medium and large farmers.

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What is the form & frequency
of assistance?
₹
To kindle the entrepreneurial potential of farmers in the state, an unconditional cash assistance of 5,000 per
₹
season for small and marginal farmers, and 12,500 for landless agricultural households to be disbursed in
three installments was determined. An investment is being made in the freedom and flexibility of the
beneficiary to utilize the amount as they deem fit.

Assured and unconditional assistance over consecutive seasons is believed to increase investment
expenditure rather than consumption expenditure, ultimately resulting in a high-income and low-risk
livelihood generation.

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How was the Annual budget of the
first year ₹ 2,175.66 crores arranged?
KALIA augments liquid cash availability among farmers at the beginning of agriculture cycle, incentivising an
investment mindset amongst families. The assistance amount of ₹5,000 per family is based on estimated
seasonal cost expenditure (with a buffer) for undertaking agricultural activity.
In addition to the administrative costs incurred in implementing the scheme, the annual budget of the first year
₹
amounted to 2,175.66 crores.

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Who were the stakeholders involved in
the delivery of KALIA?
Given the tight timeline within which the state government rolled out KALIA, the implementation of the
scheme took up much of the administrative machinery's bandwidth. Partnerships were leveraged in the
domains of technology, governance and data, and banking to implement KALIA at an unprecedented
speed.

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS CONSULTING PARTNER

Samagra - Transforming Governance

CSM Technologies National Informatics Center Odisha Computer Applications Centre

BANKING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING AGENCY

Government of Odisha
State Bank of India Odisha State Cooperative Bank NPCI

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How did the use of data ensure more
transparency for citizens?
For inviting farmer applications, and for accuracy in allocation of taxpayer funds to eligible beneficiaries, a
hybrid process, involving the initial use of state databases and subsequent collection of application forms
was undertaken. A data-backed algorithm combined with field verification was used to ensure higher
degree of accuracy. The government decided to provide financial assistance directly to bank accounts
rather than through cheques/cash payment.

The decision was taken to ensure transparency and minimize chances of corruption or fraud. Strong review
and monitoring on a daily basis helped in making the data collection and implementation process smooth,
efficient and transparent.

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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How was high accuracy ensured and
validations built into scheme delivery?
The end-to-end process, from collecting applications to disbursement of funds, was designed with various
checks and balances in place. Data used in the process of identifying beneficiaries was treated with various
levels of institution-provided and on-ground verification. This ensured that the data-rich government could
reliably develop a system to implement a targeted welfare scheme with minimal errors.

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How are public grievances
managed?
A grievance redressal mechanism has been developed for grievance resolution and control. All grievances
go through the same three-tier mechanism before a state-level sanitisation is conducted to finally resolve
them. All received grievances are made available in the GPNO (Gram Panchayat Nodal Officer) Login. In this
case, the GPNO is the Village Agriculture Worker (VAW). If documentation is complete, the VAW accepts the
ticket, otherwise it is sent back for compliance. Field verification by VAW, and approval/verification is
undertaken at the Block Nodal Officer/District Nodal Officer level. All officials and farmers are showed the
original reason for exclusion/doubt found at state level and a detailed process flow was created and shared
with field officers to manage grievances. A person can register his/her grievance online on the KALIA portal
by using his/her Aadhaar number (as submitted in the KALIA inclusion/Green form, if any).

Grievances are only accepted online through KALIA portal and without any filing charges. This goes hand-in-
hand with a tracking mechanism available on the portal to allow the applicant to know the status
of his/her grievance.

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Status of grievance applications

12,81,020
Total Grievance

3,14,087 25%
6,69,501 52%
2,97,432 23%

New Applications Applicant applied but did Applicant applied &

not received any assistance received any assistance

The figures represented above are as on 24th July 2020. In the cases where grievances are filed with incorrect documents,
Village Agriculture Workers (VAWS) send them back to farmers for validation and re-upload. Ultimately, the grievance
applications are verified by District Nodal officers (DNO). Current completion rate is at 78%. Of these approximately 76% of the
applications have been approved as eligible.

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Success Statistics
Success % Fail Not Mapped

Instalment 1 93% 6% 1%
May 2019

Instalment 2 99% 1% 0%
Nov 2019

Success is defined as a successful bank transactions i.e. transfer of benefit to beneficiary's provided bank account as confirmed .
Failed transactions also include those cash-transfers that have not been confirmed as success or failure by the respective banks.
Until May 2019, ~51 lakh beneficiaries were assisted. In November 2019, additional ~10 lakh beneficiaries were identified and
benefitted. Of the first instalment, of the ~51 lakh beneficiaries, ~14 lakh were discovered to be doubtful or ineligible cases. In the
second instalment, therefore, only ~47 lakh beneficiaries were assisted. This number too contained cases of multiple members
receiving assistance due to an overlap of ration number which was adjusted and brought the final count of ~44 lakh.

There was a significant improvement observed in the success rate of financial transactions across the two phases. Firstly, the
payments were processed through SFTP mode which ensured quick response and minimal loss of information of success/ fail
status. Often, banks are slow to respond, which makes it even more difficult to get the exact failure rate. A Kalia ID was seeded to
each beneficiary, further making tracking of transaction status easier, and further reducing the 'not mapped' figure. It is important
to note here, a success only refers to a successful debit from the account of the Department of Agriculture & Farmers
Empowerment, Odisha and credited to the bank in question, but may not result in the assistance reaching the actual beneficiary.

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How was it ensured that all decisions
placed the citizen at the centre
of the scheme?
First, information dissemination was done in a manner that it was easily accessible to farmers, for (e.g.) by
making use of community radio stations for relaying information in the evening hours when farmers would
not be working in the fields. Second, directly depositing assistance in bank accounts ensured farmers did not
have to make additional effort to deposit cheques and encash them. It also ensured there was a way to track
the transfer of money from the government to the citizen.

Third, setting up a robust grievance redressal mechanism allowed citizens to raise any problems with
respect to receiving scheme benefits. Fourth, encouraging self-reporting to declare eligibility and ineligibility
was a way for the government to display faith in citizens.

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How was inclusiveness ensured in the
design and implementation
KALIA was designed as an inclusive scheme with nearly 31% of all beneficiaries being female. In cases where
a male and female member of the family were eligible, the money was transferred to the account of the
female member. This was done with a view to increase agency of the women of the household and empower
female agriculture workers across the state. Second, there is also no age criteria for receiving benefits under
the scheme.

It accounts for flow of assistance to farmers holding any kinds of debt - formal or informal. Third, the scheme
includes farmers of all kinds – cultivators, sharecroppers and landless agricultural labourers. Fourth,
beneficiaries have been selected equitably across Gram Panchayats in the state.

Fifth, farmer distress was not narrowed down to a specific cause such as debt, as is the case with several
other agricultural schemes in the country. Lastly, it commits to providing assistance consistently over 3 years,
to correct for any variations in economic conditions at the farmer level within the eligibility criteria of the
scheme.

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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KALIA in the News

" Why Naveen Patnaik has the

best solution for farm distress
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao
(popularly called KCR) is the political hero of
the hour. At a time when most incumbents are
thrashed in state elections, he was re-elected
with 87 of 119 seats, improving on his 69 seats
five years ago. The main reason for his success
was the Rythu Bandhu scheme, giving all
₹
farmers a cash grant of 4,000 per cropping
₹
season, or 8,000 a year for double-cropped
land. Many politicians now see this as the
model to follow for political success. But a
better model has now been proposed by
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik.

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KALIA in the News

"
"By refusing to write off farm loans, Patnaik is helping maintain repayment discipline in the banking system. Loan waivers
penalise honest farmers who repay on time, and then look foolish when their neighbours (many of whom can afford to
repay), get loans written off. Patnaik says that of the 32 lakh cultivators in the state, only the richest 20 lakh have farm
loans, and they should not be the main beneficiaries of an anti-distress programme...in conception, his KALIA model is
much fairer and more far-reaching than Rythu Bandhu, and so is a better long-run model for all states."

"
- Swaminathan Aiyar, Indian Economist

"Of the four schemes, the Odisha's scheme looks more comprehensive as it covers the landless agricultural
labourers too."

"
- KV Kurmanath, Journalist

"Policy-makers and agricultural experts like Finance Commission chairman N.K. Singh, Commission for Agricultural Costs
and Prices chairman Vijay Pal Sharma and leading agro-economist Ashok Gulati have hailed the scheme launched by
the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha on December 31, 2018 as a more effective way of addressing farm distress than
the populist loan-waiver option."

- Sandeep Sahu, Senior Journalist

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The Methodology

Applications Unification Verification Exclusion Updation & Correction Disbursement Validation

Available farmers database Farmers submit Green form Unique ID assigned to GPNO & Verification of complete The green form & red
utilised for selection of for inclusion and Red Form for register maintained to list out application with copy of forms are then digitized
KALIA beneficary Exclusion applications all supporting A web-portal with a UI at kalia.co.in
The DBT farmers list of Farm Machineries Farmers fill green & red forms with The boxes are opened on a daily The completeness of the forms is is provided with unique logins for
& Seeds of Agriculture Department and basic information and put in the basis by GPNOs, assigned a unique checked by the GPNOs and Secy. GPNO to digitize green and red
P-PAS Share Croppers list of F.S & C.W green and red boxes stationed at serial number and entered into the GPNO. forms.
deptt. has been displayed at G.P Level as the GP level, respectively. GP level register.
1st DBL for selection of SF/MF under KALIA.

The GP level KALIA Committee The records are saved by Every applicant's Aadhaar Every applicant's bank Applications are clustered in
carry out suo-moto deletion the GPNO at G.P Level numbers details are verified account details are verified to families by developing
on the records List of complete application was printed Aadhaar No. & name combinations for all Bank account information for each links with other database
G.P level Committee mark 'crosses' at GP level for signature of all members of individual applicants were checked for applicant was sent to banks for To identify applicants from the same
against entries in the Draft Beneficiary GP Level KALIA Committee and onward validity and mismatch by the verification. family, ration numbers were imported
List, fed into the portal for Suo-moto transmission to BNO for verification & Authentication User Agency. from the NFSA/SFSS database.
deletion. approval.

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The Methodology

Applications Unification Verification Exclusion Updation & Correction Disbursement Validation

Exclusions are made based Exclusions are made based Exclusions are run on family Corrected bank account One applicant per family
on the Aadhar Number on the SECC indicators members of applicants existing details are updated for is chosen as beneficiary
Datasets (PMFBY, P-PAS, HRMS etc). were Socio-Economic Indicators from
outside the applicant pool each applicant One member per family of applicants
used to exclude ineligible applicants like the SECC were used to exclude as Exclusions were also run on the The verified & corrected bank were selected prioritising female
large farmers & government servants well as prioritize applicants. family members not part of the accounts are updated or, put on applicants and valid bank accounts.
applicants list.
using Aadhar No. hold until corrected.

Any duplicate Aadhar Transfer of assistance to Reverification of beneficiaries A grievance redressal

and ration numbers are Beneficiary Bank conducted by three tire system is setup for citizen
separated account committee through online enquiries
Final Beneficiary list is prepared Complete list of beneficiaries is sent to All the beneficiaries were re-verified Grievances were accepted online
having unique Aadhar and Ration bank for transfer of assistance to through suo-moto exclusion, or online through KALIA Portal, without filing
Numbers. respective account. and offline exclusion from general public. charges and with tracking facility.

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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Testimonials - Our farmers speak…

Small Farmer Tapan Kumar Panda, Koraput

KALIA Beneficiary, Odisha KALIA Beneficiary, Odisha

I am a small farmer and my earnings are meager. I have found the assistance For me, there is no greater happiness than our government dedicating its biggest
under KALIA to be very helpful. This support that the government has provided us scheme ever to the welfare of us farmers. It is a matter of such happiness. The
with, it does not pressurize me to spend it in a specific way. A big thank you to the farmers who work so hard in the fields, this scheme is to help us all. I come from
KALIA scheme and to our Chief Minister. Koraput, where I have seen the hardship we face, day after day, I have seen it up
close. I pray that with this, our troubles will go away.

Landless Agricultural Labourer Marginal Farmer

KALIA Beneficiary, Odisha KALIA Beneficiary, Odisha

I think the Chief Minister has launched an excellent scheme. Whatever money we I have received the money assistance under KALIA of five thousand rupees. I even
require untimely, that amount of need is reaching us in time and in full. received a call from the Chief Minister (IVRS). I pledge to use all the money on
agricultural purposes. Here I stand, to thank our government for this support.

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Testimonials - Government Officials speak…

PK Biswal Dr M Muthukumar, IAS

Special Secretary, Finance Department Director, Directorate of Agriculture & Farmers Production

To create a single source of authenticated family details for all welfare With the advent of KALIA , we have been able to build a centralized repository of all
programmes, the Odisha government has proposed to come up with a Social farm families in the state. this database will assist us greatly in our scheme
Registry. The social registry is expected to identify the correct target beneficiary delivery, in terms of beneficiary identification and tracking this is just one use case.
and weed out ghost and ineligible beneficiaries. The current mix of social we are excited about how else the directorate can help build upon what we already
protection schemes remain fragmented and there is a need for harnessing accomplished.
synergies and enhancing expenditure efficiency through monitoring, consolidation
of programme processes and improve benefit delivery management.

Bishnu Prasad Mishra Debi Khuntia

Executive Engineer, e-Gov Cell, DA&FE Assistant Agricultural Officer, KALIA Cell, DA&FE

I have been working with the Department of Agriculture for over 20 years now. KALIA Through KALIA, for the first time, we discovered the value of the trove of data owned
brought together all departments to work together in unison like never before. The and collected by the government over the years. The department now walks 'data'
support of partners from outside the government was indispensable and valuable and talks 'data'. Suddenly, everyone is coming up with use cases of the farmers'
for us. database for various agricultural schemes as well. I learnt so much during the
implementation of KALIA, I will never forget the experience.

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KALIA for Farmers'
Empowerment
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Odisha's Pioneering
Initiative To Empower Farmers
kalia is Inclusive
Covered nearly 50 lakh farm families including marginal & small farmers,

sharecroppers and tenant farmers and landless labourer families. Under it's

ambit nearly one-third of all direct beneficiaries are women.

kalia is Transparent
Made data-backed beneficiary identification and direct benefit transfer

directly to beneficiary bank account the basis of transparency

in the scheme. Grievance to redressal mechanism allows applicants to

validate reasons for application acceptance or rejection.

kalia is Commitment
For long term action over multiple years, for each Rabi & Kharif seasons. For

the livelihood components, the government has committed hand-holding for

farm families to successfully adopt alternative livelihood activities. KALIA

commits, not a single farmer will be left out of its benefits.

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