The “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)” is a scheme initiated by the central government to supplement the financial needs of all landholding farmers’ families. This scheme was started in the year 2018. Under the scheme income support will be provided to all land holding farmer families. Since last year we were witnessing many frauds, scams and the ineligibility of the farmers across the country. So let see what is this PM-Kisan scheme - the benefits, eligibility criteria, farmers registration process and the issues/problems related to this scheme.
About the Scheme
In order to provide income support to all landholding farmers’ families in the country, having cultivable land, the Central Government has implemented a Central Sector Scheme called “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)” was started in the year 2018. The aim is to supplement the financial needs of all landholding farmers’ families in procuring various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields, commensurate with the anticipated farm income as well as for domestic needs. In this scheme an amount of Rs.6000/- per year in three equal installments is released by the Central Government online directly into the bank accounts of the eligible farmers under Direct Benefit Transfer mode, subject to certain exclusions.
Farm family
The government has
defined about a farm family. Acc.to it a landholder farmer’s family is defined
as “a family comprising of husband, wife and minor children who owns cultivable
land as per land records of the concerned State/UT”. The existing
land-ownership system will be used for identification of beneficiaries for
calculation of benefit.
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The following categories
of beneficiaries of higher economic status shall not be eligible for benefit
under the scheme.
1.
1. All
Institutional Land holders
2. 2. Farmer families in which one or more of its
members belong to following categories:
a) Former
and present holders of constitutional posts
b) Former
and present Ministers / State Ministers and former / present Members of Lok
Sabha / Rajya Sabha / State Legislative Assemblies / State Legislative
Councils, former and present Mayors of Municipal Corporations, former and
present Chairpersons of District Panchayats.
c) All serving or retired officers and employees
of Central / State Government Ministries / Offices / Departments and their
field units, Central or State PSEs and Attached offices / Autonomous
Institutions under Government as well as regular employees of the Local Bodies
Note:
The Multi-Tasking Staff / Class IV / Group D employees will eligible for this
scheme
d) All
Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year.
e) Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by undertaking practices.
In case of self-declaration,
beneficiary shall be liable for recovery of transferred financial benefit and
other penal actions as per law.
How a farmer can register
under PM KISAN?
- Go
to PM Kisan's official website.
- Then
click on 'Farmers Corner'
- Next,
click on 'New farmer registration'
- Choose
'Rural farmer registration' or 'Urban farmer registration'
- Add
your Aadhaar number, and mobile number, select state and click
on ‘Get OTP’.
- Fill
in the OTP and proceed with the registration
- Enter
other details such as select state, district, bank details and personal
details. Enter your details as per Aadhaar.
- Then
click on ‘Submit for Aadhaar authentication
- Once your Aadhaar Authentication is successful, enter your land details, upload your supporting documents and click on save
- You will receive a message of confirmation or rejection on your screen.
One needs to complete the KYC process
to receive the installment. OTP based e- KYC can be done on PMKISAN portal or in
nearest
CSC centers for Biometric based e-KYC.
Problems/ Frauds in PM KISAN
scheme
The
government has given online provision for self-registration of prospective
beneficiaries, after furnishing the required details. This arrangement allowed
a section of field officials at offices of Assistant Directors of Agriculture
to collude with private computer centers. The COVID-19 pandemic was used by the
alleged culprits, as the field-level officers were occupied with immediate
requirements of farmers and many could not visit their offices. By taking this advantage
many fake entries have been made to get benefit under this scheme. Let see few scams/frauds
in this blog.
₹110 crore PM KISAN scheme scam in Tamil Nadu
It has been reported that ₹110 crore was fraudulently
credited to the bank accounts of 5.5 lakh ineligible people in 13 districts of
Tamil Nadu under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Scheme during
2021. It was due to the fake beneficiary’s registration on the portal. As of November
2021, ₹32 crore has been recovered from the farmers.
21 lakh farmers picked in UP found
ineligible under PM Kisan scheme
The
UP, Agriculture minister told that around 21 lakh farmers selected in Uttar
Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme ineligible, in some
cases here are numerous instances
where both the husband and wife benefited from this programme. The minister assured
that the money granted to those ineligible farmers so far under the programme
would be reimbursed from them soon.
The government has
provided the online portal for self-registration to the farmers under PM KISAN.
As we know most of the Indian farmers were not well educated and the registration
process and self-declaration may not be genuine most of the times. The
intermediate and private people were playing this game. The government should
focus on making the registration process and the beneficiary identification
more transparent and should involve the educated youths and agriculture graduates
in this process.
( Sources : Economics times,The Hindu ,pmkisan.gov.in)
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