PM-KISAN
About
- Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAmman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector Scheme with 100% funding from Government of India.
- The scheme aims to provide financial assistance to landholding farmer families across the country.
- Launched in 2019, 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 to cover all farmer families in the country irrespective of the size of their land holdings.
- Under the Scheme, Rs. 6000/- per year is transferred in three installments of Rs. 2000/- directly into the bank accounts of the farmers, subject to certain exclusion criteria.
- Excluded from the scheme:
- Institutional land holders,
- Farmer families holding constitutional posts,
- Serving or retired officers and employees of state/central government as well as PSUs and government autonomous bodies.
- Professionals like doctors, engineers and lawyers as well as retired pensioners with a monthly pension of over Rs 10,000 and
- Those who paid income tax in the last assessment year.
- The responsibility of identifying the eligible beneficiary farmers under the scheme is entirely with the state governments.