<h1>Direct Benefit Transfer violations alleged as procurement replaced direct farmer payments, prompting inquiry over inflated input purchases.</h1> Allegations claim violation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) norms by using scheme funds for departmental purchases rather than direct payments to farmers, enabled by a new resolution appointing the agriculture commissioner as controlling officer for procurement. An internal officer warned that procured items were not produced by exempted government entities and should have been disbursed via DBT, but ministerial directions and subsequent approvals allegedly advanced tenders and removed DBT components without the authorised committee's sanction, resulting in procurement at inflated prices for specified agricultural inputs.