while seeking help from israel the cm should also look into the fact that farmers in that country get huge subsidies instead of attempts to increase the output the government should work on increasing the farmers income wankhede said a national farm income commission can be set up in lines with has been mooted by dr m s swaminathan fadnavis said that so far 65000 farmers have got the compensation amount for losses due to rains or dry spell directly in their bank accounts earlier during the nvcc meet fadnavis assured the traders that local body tax would be abolished from august this year in the meantime the amnesty scheme as announced in the state budget will also come up there was a view that the law will have to be amended for bringing the scheme as a notification alone will not help the amendment will be moved soon on the controversy due to ncp mla jitendra awhads objection over conferring the maharashtra bhushan award to maratha history expert babasaheb purandare fadnavis said a decision was taken by a panel of experts purandares contribution to the subject cannot be denied for him chhatrapati shivaji was no less than a deitycm upset at tardy implementation of schemes chief minister devendra fadnavis pulled up the wardha district administration for the slow pace of works related to farmers welfare in a meeting convened on saturday fadnavis said that the work under jalyukt shivar yojana was going on at a slow pace 214 villages were finalized in the scheme another scheme the dhadak sinchan vihir yojana aimed at providing irrigation to farmers had also seen just 50 implementation fadnavis ordered the superintendent of police to file criminal offences against contractors who are misleading and delaying providing electricity supply to farmers however fadnaviss tour also raised a few questions republican party of india alleged that this was not an official tour fadnavis convened a meeting of officals at vikas bhavan on saturday but before that he attended two marriage ceremonies rpi in its press release said that the cm attended a marriage marriage of the wankhede family that is related to his personal assistant other ministers chandrakant bawankule and state minister sanjay rathod also attended the ceremony