New Delhi: On May 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the eighth installment of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme through video-conferencing.
PM Modi launched over Rs 20,000 crore to greater than 9.5 crore farmer beneficiaries beneath PM-KISAN scheme. However, there may very well be some farmers who haven’t bought the beneficiary quantity into their account.
The Scheme goals to present revenue help to all landholder farmer households throughout the nation with cultivable land, topic to sure exclusions. Under the Scheme, an quantity of Rs 6000 per 12 months is launched in three 4-monthly instalments of Rs 2000 every immediately into the financial institution accounts of the beneficiaries.
Is there any landholding limit for farmers to get annual benefit of Rs 6,000?
ln the start when the PM- PM-KISAN Scheme was launched (February, 2019), its advantages had been admissible solely to Small & marginal Farmers’ households, with mixed landholding upto 2 hectare. The Scheme was afterward revised in June 2019 and prolonged to all farmer households irrespective of the dimensions of their landholdings.
The Central Government had notified a choice to prolong the benefit of Rs 6,000 per 12 months beneath the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to all 14.5 crore farmers within the nation, irrespective of the dimensions of their landholding.
Who are excluded from the PM-KISAN Scheme?
Those excluded from the PM-KISAN embody institutional land holders, farmer households holding constitutional posts, serving or retired officers and staff of State or Central authorities in addition to Public Sector Undetakings and Government Autonomous our bodies. Professionals like medical doctors, engineers and legal professionals in addition to retired pensioners with a month-to-month pension of over Rs 10,000 and people who paid revenue tax within the final evaluation 12 months are additionally not eligible for the advantages.
