The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) completed its one year on 24 February, 2020.
About PM-KISAN
- The scheme was started with a view to augment the income of the farmers by providing income support to all landholding farmers’ families across the country, 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/- per year is transferred in three 4-monthly installments of Rs.2000/- directly into the bank accounts of the farmers, subject to certain exclusion criteria relating to higher income status.
- The Scheme was formally launched on February 24, 2019 by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
- The scheme is effective from 1.12.2018. The cut-off date for identification of beneficiaries with regard to their eligibility is 1.2.2019.
- The entire responsibility of identification of beneficiaries rests with the State / UT Governments.
- The financial benefits are released to the beneficiaries on the basis of the data of farmers prepared and uploaded by them on the PM-Kisan web-portal.
- The Scheme initially provided income support to all Small and Marginal Farmers’ families across the country, holding cultivable land upto 2 hectares. Its ambit was later expanded w.e.f. 01.06.2019 to cover all farmer families in the country irrespective of the size of their land holdings. Affluent farmers have been excluded from the scheme such as Income Tax payers in last assessment year, professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants etc and pensioners pensioners drawing at least Rs.10,000/- per month (excluding MTS/Class IV/Group D employees). Special provisions have been made for the North-Eastern States where land ownership rights are community based, Forest Dwellers and Jharkhand, which does not have updated land records and restrictions on transfer of land.
- For enrollment, the farmer is required to approach the local patwari / revenue officer / Nodal Officer (PM-Kisan) nominated by the State Government. Farmers can also do their self-registration through the Farmers Corner in the portal. Farmers can also edit their names in PM-Kisan database as per their Aadhaar database / card through the Farmers Corner in the portal. Farmers can also know the status of their payment through the Farmers Corner in the portal. Village-wise details of beneficiaries are also available on the Farmers Corner.
| BENEFICIARIES OF PM-KISAN AS ON 20-02-2020 | ||
| STATES/UTs | NUMBER OF FARMERS/FAMILIES | |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 16,521 | |
| Andhra Pradesh | 51,17,791 | |
| Bihar | 53,60,396 | |
| Chandigarh | 423 | |
| Chhattisgarh | 18,80,822 | |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 10,462 | |
| Daman and Diu | 3,466 | |
| Delhi | 12,896 | |
| Goa | 7,248 | |
| Gujarat | 48,75,048 | |
| Haryana | 14,55,118 | |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,72,175 | |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 9,34,299 | |
| Jharkhand | 14,36,023 | |
| Karnataka | 49,12,445 | |
| Kerala | 27,73,306 | |
| Lakshdweep | – | |
| Madhya Pradesh | 55,19,575 | |
| Maharashtra | 84,59,187 | |
| Odisha | 36,28,657 | |
| Puducherry | 9,736 | |
| Punjab | 22,40,189 | |
| Rajasthan | 52,04,520 | |
| Tamilnadu | 35,34,527 | |
| Telangana | 34,81,656 | |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,87,64,926 | |
| Uttarakhand | 7,01,855 | |
| West Bengal | – | |
| Total (1) | 8,12,13,267 | |
| NORTH EAST STATES | ||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 50,823 | |
| Assam | 27,04,200 | |
| Manipur | 1,73,789 | |
| Meghalaya | 70,236 | |
| Mizoram | 67,540 | |
| Nagaland | 1,70,334 | |
| Sikkim | 1,372 | |
| Tripura | 1,96,767 | |
| Total (2) | 34,35,061 | |
| Grand Total (1+2) | 8,46,48,328 | |
