PM Kisan 13th Installment: Preparations for Kisan Samman Nidhi in full swing

Around two crore farmers across the country missed out on Rs 2,000 from the 12th installment of the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi. The reason for this was that there were many errors in the records of many farmers. Thousands of farmers were deprived of the benefits of this scheme due to various anomalies ranging from E-KYC to land records. This time, to remove this shortcoming, the state governments are updating the records of the farmers.

The Center had paid Rs 22,552 crore to 10.45 crore farmers as the 11th installment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi on May 31 last year, which is the highest ever. But as the 12th installment on October 17, only 8.42 crore farmers were released the installment of PM Kisan. Due to this, the total budget also remained only Rs 17,443 crore.

Only those farmers will get the upcoming 13th installment of PM-Kisan Fund, whose records fulfill the four conditions. The first is that the land records of the farmer must be verified, to determine that the farmer is in fact the owner of the land. Second, e-KYC of the farmer should be completed on the PM-Kisan portal. The third condition is that the farmer's bank account should be linked to Aadhaar. The fourth condition is that the account should also be linked to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

Uttar Pradesh has the largest share of farmers under the scheme compared to any other state. 2.41 crore farmers of Uttar Pradesh got the 11th installment of PM-Kisan scheme last year. But talking about the 12th installment given last year, this number came down to only 1.79 crore farmers. This means 62 lakh farmers were left out in UP. In UP, a two-week special campaign has been launched from January 16 in every village of the state to encourage farmers to update their records.