The government is ready to provide Rs 6,000 annual cash benefit under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi to all eligible farmers who are not part of it yet. All eligible beneficiaries must possess at least one piece of land, get eKYC done and register themselves at the PM KISAN portal, the minister said. He added that the fund is directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries in three equal instalments of Rs 2,000.
PM Kisan is a central sector scheme with 100 per cent funding from the Government of India. Operational since December 1, 2018, an annual income support of Rs 6,000 in three equal instalments is provided to all land-holding farmer families under the scheme. The last instalment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi was disbursed on February 24 when a total of Rs 22,000 crore was given through the Direct Benefit Transfer system to the bank accounts of 9.8 crore farmers, including 2.41 crore women farmers, across the country.
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