The PM-Kisan Mobile App with Face Authentication Feature was launched by Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister on June 22.
Key points
- With this app, farmer can complete e-KYC remotely, sitting at home easily by scanning face without OTP or fingerprint and helped 100 other farmers to do e-KYC at their home.
- Recognizing the need to make e-KYC mandatory, the Government of India has extended the ability of farmers to perform e-KYC to officers of state governments, so that each officer can complete the e-KYC process for 500 farmers.
About PM Kisan
- PM-KISAN is a central sector scheme launched on 24th February, 2019 to supplement financial needs of land holding farmers.
- PM Kisan is one of the world’s largest DBT schemes in which farmers get Rs 6,000 directly transferred through Aadhaar linked bank accounts in three installments in a year.
- The scheme was extended to cover all landholding farmers with effect from 01.06.2019.
- 2.42 lakh crore has been transferred to the accounts of more than 11 crore farmers, of whom more than 3 crore were women.
- PM Kisan Yojana proved to be a strong partner for the farmers even during the lockdown at the time of covid.
- The scheme has ensured necessary facilities by providing direct financial assistance to the farmers and has given them confidence in difficult times.
- Now the difficulties related to Aadhaar verification and bank account details updation on PM Kisan Portal have been resolved by effective use of digital public goods.
