Requesting farmers and significantly prioritizing the PM-KISAN, the Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said states and union territories should speed up the enrolment for eligible farmers under the 87,000 crores PM-KISAN scheme for the timely transfer of ₹6,000 per year in three equal instalments.
The chat had on the video conference with the state agricultural ministers. On the same, he also asked the state governments to organise village-level campaigns to cover one crore farmers under the Kisan Credit Card Scheme within the next hundred days.
“Union Agriculture Minister urged all States/UTs to expedite the process of enrolment of all eligible farmer families/beneficiaries in a time-bound manner so that the benefit under PM-KISAN for the period from April to July 2019 can be transferred directly to their bank accounts,” an official statement said.
The statement further added, “During the video conference, it was stressed that there should be 100 per cent enlistment of eligible beneficiaries by States/UT’s, timely uploading of corrected data on PM-Kisan portal and establishment of proper redressal mechanism.”
“States like Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP, Chhattisgarh, WB, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and North Eastern states have already been identified where KCC penetration was found lagging,” the statement said.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM-KISAN), an income support scheme launched just before the Lok Sabha polls has been extended by the Modi, to all 14.5 crore farmers despite of the size of landholdings but subject to exclusion criteria.
Under the scheme, ₹6,000 per annum is given in three equal instalments (of ₹2000 each) to eligible farmers.
The first payment of ₹2,000 has already been transferred by the government to 3.30 crore farmers and the second instalment to 2.70 crore farmers under the PM-KISAN, which will cost over ₹87,000 crore a year to the exchequer.
Discussing in detail about the Kisan Credit Card (KCC), Tomar insisted on the state governments to enrol the remaining farmers by organising village-wise campaigns. Tomar also asked the states to cover one crore farmers under the KCC within the next 100 days.
