PM KISAN 10th Installment: Mandatory documents farmers must submit to avail Rs 6,000 installment benefits under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Check all details here

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM KISAN) scheme with a view to supplement the earnings of small and medium categories farmers. This scheme coupled with the Digital India initiative has made it possible to reach the PM KISAN benefits to 12 crore farmers in the country.

The Government launched the Central Sector Scheme, PM-KISAN, to provide financial assistance of up to Rs 6,000 annually to small and marginalised farmers across the country.

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi 10th Installment news: Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 10th installment of financial benefit under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on 1st January 2022 via video conferencing. This enabled the transfer of an amount of more than Rs 20,000 crore to more than 10 crore beneficiary farmer families.

During the programme, the Prime Minister also released an equity grant of more than Rs 14 crore to about 351 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), which will benefit more than 1.24 lakh farmers. PM KISAN is a government scheme with 100 per cent funding from the Government of India.

The financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is to be released to the eligible farmers in three instalments of Rs 2,000 each every 4-month / trimester, i.e. April-July, August-November and December-March.

The Scheme is being implemented through an Aadhaar linked electronic data base containing details of all members of the families of the farmers whose names appear in the land records

The PM KISAN Yojana benefits 12 crore farmers across of the country.  The PM KISAN Yojana provides financial assistance to farmers irrespective of the size of their land holdings. The scheme provides minimum income support up to Rs 6,000 to farmers across the country.

The amount is directly transferred to the bank account of the farmers.

Mandatory Documents farmers should submit to get PM Kisan benefits 

The following information / documents are required to be furnished by the farmers for enrollment under PM-KISAN Scheme

1) Name, Age, Gender and Category (SC/ST)

2) Aadhaar Number (except in case of farmers in the States of Assam, Meghalaya and J&K (now UTs of J&K and Ladakh), where Aadhaar number has not been issued to most of the citizens, and therefore these states have been exempted from the requirement till 31st March, 2020. ln these States / UTs, Aadhaar number shall be collected for those beneficiaries where it is available and for others alternate prescribed documents can be collected for identity verification purposes by the States/UT Governments, like Aadhaar Enrollment Number and / or any other prescribed documents for purposes of the identification such as Driving Licence, Voters' lD Card, NREGA Job Card, or any other identification documents issued by Central/State/UT Governments or their authoritres, etc.

3) Bank Account Number and IFSC Code.

4) Mobile number, though it is not mandatory but it is advised that when available it may be provided so that the information related to transfer of benefit can be communicated.