PM Kisan
About:
- A central government programme called PM-KISAN was introduced on February 24th, 2019 to help landowner farmers with their financial needs via a direct benefit transfer (DBT) approach.
- The primary goals of PM Kisan are to financially support all qualified landowner farmers and their families.
- The PM-KISAN programme also aims to help farmers with their financial needs in order to ensure that their crops are healthy and that their yields are adequate and in line with their expected farm income.
- The Central Government has fully supported this Central Sector Scheme. financing and carrying out
- It will be carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Advantages provided:
- Every household of farmers who possess land would get a yearly cash benefit of Rs. 6000 under the PM KISAN scheme. It will be paid over the course of four months in three equal instalments of Rs. 200 each.
A person’s capacity to get benefits under PM KISAN:
- The PM KISAN Scheme was introduced on February 24, 2019, and its advantages were only available to SMF households with a total landholding of up to 2 hectares. Later, all farmer families were able to take part in the Scheme, regardless of how much land they owned.
The beneficiaries will be announced in what way?
- The State/UT Governments alone have the power to determine whether farming families qualify for benefits under the programme. The intended receivers for the transfer of plan benefits will be determined using the current land-ownership systems and land records of the various States and Union Territories.
- The PM-KISAN smartphone app was created in partnership by the National Informatics Center and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Farmers can check the status of their applications, update or alter their Aadhaar cards, and view the history of their bank account credits.
Issues:
- Insufficient database is a problem. There have been claims that the database has inclusion and exclusion mistakes.
- Finding farmers who will benefit is challenging: According to the 2015–16 agricultural census, there are 14.65 crore landholdings in the nation overall. The number of farmer families in the country, however, is not based on landholding because there may be multiple owners for a single parcel of land. In this case, all land-owning farmer families are welcome to participate in the programme.
- There is a compelling argument for incorporating low-income households and other tenants without land very quickly.
- Local obstacles could be identified and eliminated with the use of different bottom-up strategies and careful implementation techniques.
