Over Rs 2.60 lakh crore disbursed to more than 11 crore farmers under PM Kisan: Govt

August 9, 2023: The government has disbursed over Rs 2.60 lakh crore to more than 11 crore farmers under its Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM Kisan) scheme, Union minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

In the financial year 2022-23 (FY23), nearly Rs 58,202 crore was disbursed to eligible beneficiaries under the scheme. So far, the government has released 14 instalments of the scheme.

A Central sector scheme, the PM Kisan programme aims to provide financial assistance to all cultivable landholding farmer families across the country. Under the Scheme, an amount of Rs 6,000 is transferred annually in three equal installments of Rs 2,000 directly into the Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts of farmers. The scheme was launched in February 2019.

“A farmer-centric digital infrastructure has ensured the benefits of the scheme reach all the farmers across the country without any involvement of the middlemen, maintaining absolute transparency in registering and verifying beneficiaries. The government of India has disbursed over Rs 2.60 lakh crore to more than 11 crore farmers,” the minister said in his statement to the Lower House.

The minister also told the Lok Sabha that West Bengal was made part of the scheme from the eight instalment onwards, released in April-July 2021.

“Initially, the state desired that the funds under the PM Kisan scheme be transferred to the state government for onward disbursement to the farmers,” he said.

State-wise, Year-wise Details of Beneficiaries under PM-KISAN as on date

Sr. No.	State/UT	FY 2018-19	FY 2019-20	FY 2020-21	FY 2021-22	FY 2022-23	FY 2023-24 (till 31^st July 2023)
Sr. No.	State/UT	No. of Beneficiaries	No. of Beneficiaries	No. of Beneficiaries	No. of Beneficiaries	No. of Beneficiaries	No. of Beneficiaries
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	33,16,854	50,31,470	49,45,845	46,18,283	47,82,509	41,35,131
2	ASSAM	11,55,408	27,24,021	19,02,296	16,69,706	9,17,349	8,75,203
3	BIHAR	2,50,812	62,13,753	77,45,589	82,93,339	83,54,595	75,66,322
4	CHHATTISGARH	1,13,042	21,20,833	30,14,415	32,56,736	29,45,209	20,24,062
5	GOA	2,439	8,730	9,680	9,451	9,118	5,663
6	GUJARAT	28,59,550	51,89,570	56,69,073	58,84,289	59,61,296	45,17,823
7	HARYANA	9,66,454	16,51,975	18,77,573	18,85,795	18,62,362	15,36,690
8	HIMACHAL PRADESH	4,57,032	8,86,568	9,18,875	9,51,384	9,46,568	7,38,113
9	JAMMU AND KASHMIR	4,57,861	9,89,801	11,49,567	11,19,284	11,07,064	7,31,489
10	JHARKHAND	5,63,642	15,07,690	23,82,894	17,85,101	22,61,419	13,02,842
11	KARNATAKA	19,872	50,79,278	53,84,844	53,10,984	51,89,062	49,34,483
12	KERALA	9,57,982	29,47,160	34,88,754	35,58,098	34,97,724	23,40,980
13	MADHYA PRADESH	9,288	65,53,531	82,72,406	85,42,655	85,39,843	76,42,635
14	MAHARASHTRA	21,84,073	92,38,725	1,08,22,008	1,05,36,980	1,04,51,126	85,60,082
15	ODISHA	9,73,860	36,10,474	25,55,023	33,02,891	33,88,102	26,93,118
16	PUNJAB	11,81,206	23,14,347	19,09,417	17,75,305	17,07,198	8,56,639
17	RAJASTHAN	64,977	56,32,554	67,66,430	73,27,319	72,59,624	56,88,783
18	TAMIL NADU	21,61,268	37,50,066	44,58,723	37,81,819	32,29,940	20,95,315
19	TELANGANA	20,27,893	35,24,059	36,38,250	36,52,568	35,81,172	29,50,888
20	UTTAR PRADESH	1,11,93,799	2,03,92,039	2,35,75,708	2,45,56,300	2,42,98,615	1,86,53,967
21	UTTARAKHAND	4,15,409	7,59,942	8,62,054	8,97,748	9,00,557	7,59,553
22	WEST BENGAL	–	–	–	46,44,261	48,69,233	44,70,797
	Sub-Total:	3,13,32,721	9,01,26,586	10,13,49,424	10,73,60,296	10,60,59,685	8,50,80,578
	Other States/UTs Total:	2,82,864	9,86,388	14,22,374	12,09,622	11,03,920	5,81,895
	Grand Total:	3,16,15,585	9,11,12,974	10,27,71,798	10,85,69,918	10,71,63,605	8,56,62,473

(Source: PIB/Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare)

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