PM Kisan 12th Installment: Will landholding size impact your beneficiary status? Here is your answer!

PM Kisan 12th Installment: The Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM Kisan) 12th is due for disbursement and the announcement on its is expected to come in a month’s time. The installment is expected to be disbursed in the August to November period.

Under the PM-KISAN scheme, all landholding farmers' families shall be provided the financial benefit of Rs 6000 per annum per family payable in three equal installments of Rs 2000 each, every four months.

Farmers who have still not got themselves registered for the scheme but are in the bind if there is a cap on the landholding to avail the benefits must know this. The benefits of the scheme are not limited for those farmers who have small and marginal farmers' (SMF) families.

When the scheme was launched on 24 February 2019, the benefits were limited for farmer families who were small and marginal with combined landholding up to 2 hectare. The Scheme was later revised with effect from 1 June 2019 and extended to all farmer families irrespective of the size of their landholdings.

All landholding farmers' families, which have cultivable landholding in their names are eligible to get benefit under the scheme.

The farmers must also know that the scheme benefits will be allowed in all such cases as well where transfer of ownership of cultivable land has taken place after the cut-off date of 1 February 2019 on account of succession due to death of the landowner.

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Government has given a financial benefit of Rs 21,924 crore to the eligible farmers under the PM-KISAN scheme in this fiscal so far. It, has been transferred directly into the accounts of the eligible 10.26 crore farmers.

The information was given in a written reply in Lok Sabha by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.   

Out of which, Rs 5,063.25 crore was transferred to eligible farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Rs 2,053 crore in Maharashtra, Rs 1,684 crore in Bihar and Rs 1,680 crore in Madhya Pradesh so far this fiscal, as per the data placed in the Lower House.