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Government of India
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
25-June-2019 17:03 IST
Eligibility for PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme

All landholder farmers’ families in the country are eligible for the PM-Kisan Scheme, except those covered under the following exclusion criteria:

(I)        All Institutional Land holders; and

(II)       Farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to following categories :

  1. Former and present holders of constitutional posts

 

  1. Former and present Ministers/ State Ministers and former/present  Members of Lok Sabha/ Rajya Sabha/ State Legislative Assemblies/ State Legislative Councils,former and present Mayors of Municipal Corporations, former and present Chairpersons of District Panchayats.
  1. All serving or retired officers and employees of Central/ State Government Ministries /Offices/Departments and its field units Central or State PSEs and Attached offices /Autonomous Institutions under Government as well as regular employees of the Local Bodies (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV/Group D employees)

 

  1. All superannuated/retired pensioners whose monthly pension is Rs.10,000/-or more (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV/Group D employees)

 

  1. All Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year.

vi)  Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by undertaking practices.

 

Till date, 3,33,14,898 and 2,89,59,068 farmers’ families have availed 1st and 2nd installments respectively under the PM-Kisan Scheme. A Statement showing State/UT-wise number of beneficiaries who have received the financial benefits under the Scheme, including the beneficiaries of Jharkhand is enclosed at Annexure-I. A Statement showing beneficiary details of Chatra, Latehar and Palamu districts of Jharkhand and the districts of Uttar Pradesh is enclosed at Annexure-II.

 

The Government has been conducting regular meetings with all the State / UT Governments, including those who have not on-boarded the scheme so far, through Video Conferencing, physical meetings, physical communications as well as e-mails, at frequent intervals several times during a month, exhorting them to expeditiously upload data of farmers on the PM-Kisan Portal to enable it to release the benefits to the beneficiary farmers.

 

This Information was given by the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha today.

 

Annexure-I

 

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART  (b)  OF Lok  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 485 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 25.06.2019

 

States

First installment Payment  (No. of beneficiaries)

First installment Payment  (Amount)     (In Rupees)

Second installment Payment (No. of beneficiaries)

Second installment Payment  (Amount)     (In Rupees)

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

10,004

20,008,000

 

0

Andhra Pradesh

3,443,116

6,886,232,000

3,126,852

6,253,704,000

Arunachal Pradesh

0

0

 

0

Assam

1,119,983

2,239,966,000

1,029,438

2,058,876,000

Bihar

231,873

463,746,000

219,136

438,272,000

Chandigarh

13

26,000

 

0

Chhattisgarh

111,898

223,796,000

109,434

218,868,000

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

5,322

10,644,000

 

0

Daman and Diu

2,119

4,238,000

 

0

Delhi

0

0

 

0

Goa

2,385

4,770,000

2,336

4,672,000

Gujarat

2,832,336

5,664,672,000

2,821,569

5,643,138,000

Haryana

942,052

1,884,104,000

935,929

1,871,858,000

Himachal Pradesh

474,763

949,526,000

438,256

876,512,000

Jammu and Kashmir

497,204

994,408,000

459,593

919,186,000

Jharkhand

470,307

940,614,000

 

0

Karnataka

320,721

641,442,000

231,847

463,694,000

Kerala

935,786

1,871,572,000

931,661

1,863,322,000

Lakshdweep

0

0

 

0

Madhya Pradesh

9,304

18,608,000

 

0

Maharashtra

2,129,137

4,258,274,000

1,418,119

2,836,238,000

Manipur

7,276

14,552,000

 

0

Meghalaya

76

152,000

 

0

Mizoram

24,410

48,820,000

11,931

23,862,000

Nagaland

33,554

67,108,000

30,459

60,918,000

Odisha

962,115

1,924,230,000

799,293

1,598,586,000

Puducherry

4,200

8,400,000

 

0

Punjab

1,275,440

2,550,880,000

1,144,648

2,289,296,000

Rajasthan

1,493,023

2,986,046,000

 

0

Sikkim

 

0

 

0

Tamilnadu

2,148,504

4,297,008,000

2,063,192

4,126,384,000

Telangana

2,110,887

4,221,774,000

1,858,210

3,716,420,000

Tripura

151,095

302,190,000

151,064

302,128,000

Uttar Pradesh

11,169,349

22,338,698,000

10,848,667

21,697,334,000

Uttarakhand

396,646

793,292,000

327,434

654,868,000

West Bengal

0

0

0

0

Total

33,314,898

66,629,796,000

28,959,068

57,918,136,000

 

                                                                                                                                                 ANNEXURE-II

 

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART  (b)  OF Lok  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 485 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 25.06.2019

 

Jharkhand

 

 

District

Number of beneficiaries

 

1st Installment

2nd Installment

CHATRA

36951

27213

LATEHAR

18147

12871

PALAMU

28717

16252

 

Uttar Pradesh

District

Number of beneficiaries

1st Installment

2nd Installment

AGRA

191802

188556

ALIGARH

156255

153476

ALLAHABAD

223977

214077

AMBEDKAR NAGAR

129896

121335

Amethi

140831

135729

AMROHA

99470

97928

AURAIYA

81864

80414

AZAMGARH

306027

294875

BAGHPAT

58107

53175

BAHRAICH

232303

228383

BALLIA

125053

120474

BALRAMPUR

148627

145805

BANDA

93875

91593

BARABANKI

196028

192063

BAREILLY

206699

195007

BASTI

171837

170501

BHADOHI

77156

74551

BIJNOR

182561

176451

BUDAUN

187893

183689

BULANDSHAHR

190171

186082

CHANDAULI

96561

94366

CHITRAKOOT

79084

77703

DEORIA

209955

205563

ETAH

124604

122253

ETAWAH

116948

113039

FAIZABAD

163651

157236

FARRUKHABAD

105911

103741

FATEHPUR

110667

102292

FIROZABAD

129560

126900

GAUTAM BUDDHA NAGAR

25401

24963

GHAZIABAD

31918

30390

GHAZIPUR

225590

220264

GONDA

258106

253140

GORAKHPUR

158461

155488

HAMIRPUR

97636

93732

HAPUR

62009

59778

HARDOI

346187

339542

HATHRAS

86778

83841

JALAUN

94829

93003

JAUNPUR

275841

267233

JHANSI

108894

107780

KANNAUJ

104843

100102

KANPUR DEHAT

144162

136669

KANPUR NAGAR

141802

136826

Kasganj

102541

99988

KAUSHAMBI

126090

120453

KHERI

309855

304886

KUSHI NAGAR

212893

209558

LALITPUR

98479

97549

LUCKNOW

106106

103489

MAHARAJGANJ

182661

178085

MAHOBA

50652

49837

MAINPURI

141192

137764

MATHURA

119624

116356

MAU

99832

98048

MEERUT

81937

76410

MIRZAPUR

185517

180367

MORADABAD

148212

146879

MUZAFFARNAGAR

111220

106811

PILIBHIT

132152

127425

PRATAPGARH

250688

240764

RAE BARELI

263269

256501

RAMPUR

125837

122070

SAHARANPUR

164487

159101

SAMBHAL

123988

122757

SANT KABEER NAGAR

91291

89273

SHAHJAHANPUR

225158

218700

SHAMLI

30941

30259

SHRAVASTI

72930

71443

SIDDHARTH NAGAR

130667

127236

SITAPUR

335365

324534

SONBHADRA

113275

110458

SULTANPUR

189969

179227

UNNAO

252523

244667

VARANASI

90166

87762

 

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