{"id":1286,"date":"2026-06-23T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:40:15","slug":"pm-kisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/pm-kisan\/","title":{"rendered":"PM-KISAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>PM-KISAN<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAmman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a <strong>Central Sector Scheme with 100% funding from Government of India.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The scheme aims to provide <strong>financial assistance to landholding farmer families <\/strong>across the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launched in<strong> 2019<\/strong>, the Scheme initially provided income support to all Small and Marginal Farmers\u2019 families across the country, holding cultivable land upto 2 hectares. Its ambit was later expanded to <strong>cover all farmer families in the country irrespective of the size of their land holdings.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under the Scheme, <strong>Rs. 6000\/- per year <\/strong>is transferred in three installments of Rs. 2000\/- directly into the bank accounts of the farmers, subject to <strong>certain exclusion criteria<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Excluded from the scheme:<\/strong>\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Institutional land holders,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farmer families holding constitutional posts,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Serving or retired officers and employees of state\/central government as well as PSUs and government autonomous bodies.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Professionals like doctors, engineers and lawyers as well as retired pensioners with a monthly pension of over Rs 10,000 and\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Those who paid income tax in the last assessment year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<strong> responsibility of identifying the eligible beneficiary farmers<\/strong> under the scheme is <strong>entirely with the state governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM-KISAN About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-initiatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}