{"id":343946,"date":"2025-08-04T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343946"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:54:20","slug":"pradhan-mantri-kisan-samman-nidhi-pm-kisan-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-kisan-samman-nidhi-pm-kisan-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released the 20th installment of the PM-Kisan scheme from Banauli in Varanasi during his visit to the city.<\/p>\n<h2>About Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343961\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-343961\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-NIC.jpg?resize=425%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-NIC.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-NIC.jpg?resize=1024%2C679&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-NIC.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-NIC.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; NIC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)<\/strong> is a <strong>Central Sector Scheme<\/strong> launched by the Government of India to provide income support to landholding farmer families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched:<\/strong> The scheme was officially launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on <strong>February 24, 2019<\/strong>, and it came into effect from <strong>December 1, 2018<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To supplement the financial needs of farmers in procuring inputs for agriculture and allied activities, as well as to support domestic needs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong> Under the scheme, each eligible farmer family receives <strong>\u20b96,000 per year<\/strong>, which is paid in <strong>three equal installments of \u20b92,000<\/strong> every <strong>four months<\/strong>. The amount is directly transferred to the beneficiary\u2019s bank account through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system.<\/li>\n<li>A farmer family under the PM-KISAN scheme is defined as a unit consisting of a husband, wife, and minor children who own cultivable land according to the land records maintained by the respective State or Union Territory.<\/li>\n<li>Initially, the scheme was limited to small and marginal farmers who owned up to <strong>2 hectares of cultivable land<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>However, from <strong>June 1, 2019<\/strong>, the scheme was extended to include <strong>all landholding farmer families<\/strong> regardless of the size of their landholdings. To be eligible, the land must be in the name of the applicant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released the 20th installment of the PM-Kisan scheme from Banauli in Varanasi during his visit to the city. About Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector Scheme launched by the Government of India to provide income support to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-kisan-samman-nidhi-pm-kisan-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,12039],"tags":[11872,10595],"class_list":["post-343946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}