Lok Sabha Question No. 1631 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-02
Subject: Complaints regarding PM Kisan Yojana
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Balubhau (Alias Suresh Narayan) Dhanorkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK  SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1631 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 2 ND  JULY, 2019

## COMPLAINTS REGARDING PM KISAN YOJANA

1631.   SHRI BALUBHAU ALIAS SURESH NARAYAN DHANORKAR:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether it is true that a lot of farmers have lodged complaints about withdrawal of the first instalment of money under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Yojana paid by the Government, from their accounts;
- (b) if so, the reasons therefor and the details of the numbers of such farmers, State-wise; and
- (c) the steps taken by the Government to stop such irregularities?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (c): No,  Sir.  It  is  not  true.  However,  at  the  initial  stage  of  implementation  of  the Scheme the details of farmers uploaded by the States / UTs were processed for payment by the Public Finance Management System (PFMS) on their DBT portal. While the payments were being processed for crediting in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries it was noticed that in some cases there was a mismatch in the names of the beneficiaries as provided by the  State  Governments  and  the  names  as  given  in  the  details  of  the  corresponding  bank account numbers. The States were asked to verify this discrepancy. On the request of the States, Stop Payment instructions were given to the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) for 269605 farmers. The system could stop credit of these beneficiaries, except for 119743  beneficiaries  whose  accounts  had  already  been  credited.  The  NPCI  and  banks returned the money of those beneficiaries also on account of Stop Payment instructions. The State-wise details of cases of reversal of transactions in respect of these 119743 farmers is annexed at Annexure .

The procedure for release of payment to beneficiaries was suitably modified after the initial  period  and  stringent  pre-verification  procedures  were  formalized.  The  States'  Stop Payment requests due to mismatch in the names is taken in  advance  so  that  payment  is released  only  to  the  beneficiaries  whose  data  matches  correctly  with  the  bank  account details. Therefore, the possibility of re-occurrence has been eliminated .

## ANNEXURE

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTs (a) TO (c) OF lok SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1631 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 02.07.2019

| Sl. No.   | Name of State     |   Cases of reversal of transactions |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------------------------|
| 1         | Assam             |                                   2 |
| 2         | Haryana           |                                  55 |
| 3         | Himachal Pradesh  |                                 346 |
| 4         | Jammu And Kashmir |                                  29 |
| 5         | Jharkhand         |                                  22 |
| 6         | Maharashtra       |                               32897 |
| 7         | Uttar Pradesh     |                               86314 |
| 8         | Uttarakhand       |                                  78 |
|           | Total             |                              119743 |

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