The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), a Central Sector Scheme, aims at providing financial assistance to cultivable landholding farmer families across the country, subject to certain exclusion criteria, to enable them to take care of expenses related to agriculture and allied activities as well as domestic needs. Under the Scheme, an amount of Rs. 6000/- is transferred annually in three equal installments of Rs.2000/- directly into the Aadhaar seeded bank accounts of the farmers.
Under the PM-KISAN Scheme, the responsibility to identify the beneficiaries and upload their correct and verified data on PM-KISAN portal lies with the respective State/UT Government. Thereafter, these data go through various levels of verification and validation including Aadhaar/PFMS/Income Tax database. Subsequent to such verification and validation, the benefit of the Scheme is passed on to eligible beneficiaries directly into their Aadhaar seeded bank accounts through DBT. Under the PM-KISAN Scheme, more than 2.42 lakh crores has been disbursed to more than 11 crore beneficiary farmer families through various installments.
The scheme is applicable only for landholding farmers. The number of farmers whose land details are seeded on the PM-KISAN Portal is more than 9.53 crore. The number of farmers registered under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Yojana, State-wise is enclosed at Annexure I.
The number of farmers benefitted under PM-KISAN Yojana, State-wise is enclosed at Annexure II. At present, all the farmers whose land details have been provided and Bank accounts have been seeded with Aadhaar by the respective State/UT Government can receive the benefit under the scheme.
The number of farmers whose Know Your Customer (KYC) is pending under PM-KISAN Yojana, State-wise is enclosed at Annexure III.
Annexure I