West Bengal Government decided to Introduce Single Window System

The West Bengal Government in the last week of September 2012 decided to introduce single window system in the agriculture sector for the benefit of farmers. The main objective of the plan is that the farmers need not visit various organizations repeatedly to meet their needs. This will be set up on the line of industrial sector where farmers will get all necessary helps and information under one umbrella. The system will be launched in all 341 blocks in the state by October 2012.

Under the plan all seven departments related to agriculture like agricultural marketing, horticulture, food processing, water resources, fisheries, animal resource development and irrigation will come under one umbrella to meet the farmer’s need. The single window system will be housed in the proposed Kisan Bazar where offcials of various agriculture related departments, banks, insurance companies and representatives of farmers will converged to meet farmer’s quarries. The system will also provide necessary information and inputs to the beneficiaries on various centrally and state sponsored schemes, financial credit, crop insurance, animal and plant diseases and their prevention, fertilizer, soil health, agriculture related infrastructure and marketing of farmers produce. A committee of group of ministers is also being set up to monitor all these activities at the state level.