Eligibility For PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme

In the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday, Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, informed that all landholder farmers’ families in the country are eligible for the PM-Kisan Scheme, except those covered under the following exclusion criteria:

(I)        All Institutional Land holders; and

(II)       Farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to following categories :

1. Former and present holders of constitutional posts

2. 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.

3. All serving or retired officers and employees of Central/ State Government Ministries /Offices/Departments and its field units Central or State PSEs and Attached offices /Autonomous Institutions under Government as well as regular employees of the Local Bodies (Excluding MultiTasking Staff / Class IV/Group D employees)

4. All superannuated/retired pensioners whose monthly pension is Rs.10,000/-or more (Excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV/Group D employees)

5. All Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year.

vi)  Professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by undertaking practices.

Till date, 3,33,14,898 and 2,89,59,068 farmers’ families have availed 1^st and 2^nd installments respectively under the PM-Kisan Scheme.

The Government has been conducting regular meetings with all the State / UT Governments, including those who have not on-boarded the scheme so far, through Video Conferencing, physical meetings, physical communications as well as e-mails, at frequent intervals several times during a month, exhorting them to expeditiously upload data of farmers on the PM-Kisan Portal to enable it to release the benefits to the beneficiary farmers.

For details of beneficiaries visit http://pib.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1575610