Overview

• The housing package provides ₹1.2 lakh per household for repairs plus ₹40,000 for toilets, with labour costs covered.
• Farm support includes ₹74 crore for free wheat seed and ₹3.24 crore for mustard seed for affected growers.
• An advance of ₹222 crore under PM Kisan has been issued to deliver immediate relief to farmers.
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Centre received Punjab’s updated list around 9 pm and he handed the sanction letter to the state agriculture minister in Ludhiana the next morning.
• Chouhan urged Punjab to rejoin the PM Fasal Bima Yojana and noted that the Prime Minister’s earlier ₹1,600-crore relief package for the state remains in place.