Lok Sabha Question No. 135 (STARRED), answered on 2020-02-11
Subject: Farmers Registered under PM-KISAN Scheme
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Manne Srinivas Reddy

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

## LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.135

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE   11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2020

## FARMERS REGISTERED UNDER PM-KISAN SCHEME

- *135.  SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT: SHRI MANNE SRINIVAS REDDY:

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

- (a) the  number  of  farmers  registered  under  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Kisan  Samman  Nidhi Yojana (PM-KISAN Scheme) and the number of farmers benefited, out of them, State-wise; (b) the details of funds allocated for the said scheme and the total amount being disbursed to the beneficiaries; (c) whether it is true that all the enrolled farmers are not getting the benefit under the above scheme and if so, the reasons therefor; (d) the  manner  in  which  the  Ministry  ensures  that  only  genuine  farmers  are  getting benefited under the scheme; and whether  the  Government  has  a  mechanism  to  check  whether  the  said  scheme  has brought any major changes in the lives of beneficiaries, if so, the details thereof and if not, the

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी

(SHRI NARENDRA  SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
- (e) reasons therefor?

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.  135   DUE FOR REPLY ON 11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2020.

- (a): As  on  06.02.2020,  a  total  of  96,073,451 farmer  families  have  been  successfully registered  under  PM-KISAN  out  of  which  84,472,629  beneficiaries  have  received  benefits under the Scheme. The State-wise details of the same are given at Annexure-1.
- (b): Budgetary allocation of Rs. 20,000 Crore and Rs. 75,000 Crore have been provided in Financial  Year  2018-19  &  2019-20  respectively  for  the  implementation  of  PM-KISAN Scheme,  out  of  which,  as  of  06.02.2020,  an  amount  of  Rs.  50522.2  Crore  has  been transferred  in  the  bank  accounts  of  beneficiaries  across  the  country  since  inception  of  the Scheme.
- (c):     PM-KISAN is a continuous and ongoing Scheme, in which the financial benefits are transferred to the bank accounts of the identified beneficiaries as and when their correct and verified data is uploaded by the concerned States / UTs on PM-Kisan web-portal.  The data of beneficiaries so uploaded by the concerned States/UTs  undergoes a multi-level verification  and  validation  by  various  concerned  agencies  before  making  payment  to  the beneficiaries, hence, merely registration on the Portal does not ensure benefit transfer to the beneficiaries.
- (d): In order to release PM-KISAN benefits, Ministry receives verified details i.e. details of land  holdings,  villages,  bank  related  details,  Aadhar  card  number  etc.  of  the  beneficiaries from  the  concerned  States/UTs.  These  details  are  required  to  verified  by  the  PM-KISAN Portal,  initially  the  account  validation  is done  through Public Finance  Management System (PFMS).  From  December,  2019  onwards  AADHAR  authentication  of  beneficiaries  data  is also made mandatory. In case, any mismatch of provided details has been noticed by the above   mentioned  agencies,    details related   to concerned beneficiaries are required to be

corrected or amended by the concerned States/UTs.  For this purpose details of concerned beneficiaries  are  made  available  to  the  concerned  States/UTs.  This  way,  Ministry  ensures benefit transfer to the beneficiaries only on the basis of verification of the concerned State/UT Governments.  In  the  cases  of  self-registration  through  the  Farmers  Corner  in  the  portal, Ministry seeks verified data of the beneficiaries from the concerned State/UT Governments before transfer the benefit under PM-KISAN.

(e): Agriculture is a State subject. The prime responsibility of development of Agriculture rests with the concerned State/UT Governments. Government of India, however, through its various  Schemes/Missions,  supplements  the  efforts  of  the  State/UT  Governments  for  the development of agriculture and welfare of the farmers. With a view to provide income support to all landholding farmer families across the country, to enable them to take care of expenses related  to  agricultural  &  allied  activities  and  to  save  them  from  the  clutches  of  the moneylenders, PM-KISAN was launched. The Scheme was launched on 24.02.2019 and the same is in nascent state.  As such, no formal study of the Scheme has been done yet.

## Annexure-1

| State wise details of farmers registered and benefitted under PM-KISAN   | State wise details of farmers registered and benefitted under PM-KISAN   | State wise details of farmers registered and benefitted under PM-KISAN   |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| State/UT                                                                 | No. of Farmers Successfully Registered under PM-KISAN                    | Farmers benefitted under PM-KISAN                                        |
| ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS                                              | 16,830                                                                   | 16,504                                                                   |
| ANDHRA PRADESH                                                           | 5,445,035                                                                | 5,117,781                                                                |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH                                                        | 63,173                                                                   | 50,820                                                                   |
| ASSAM                                                                    | 3,665,983                                                                | 2,704,199                                                                |
| BIHAR                                                                    | 5,757,826                                                                | 5,348,465                                                                |
| CHANDIGARH                                                               | 462                                                                      | 457                                                                      |
| CHHATTISGARH                                                             | 2,153,461                                                                | 1,880,819                                                                |
| DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI                                                   | 10,586                                                                   | 10,435                                                                   |
| DAMAN AND DIU                                                            | 3,664                                                                    | 3,463                                                                    |
| DELHI                                                                    | 14,304                                                                   | 12,479                                                                   |
| GOA                                                                      | 8,677                                                                    | 7,248                                                                    |
| GUJARAT                                                                  | 5,128,406                                                                | 4,825,858                                                                |
| HARYANA                                                                  | 1,648,596                                                                | 1,445,519                                                                |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                         | 891,948                                                                  | 863,890                                                                  |
| JAMMU AND KASHMIR                                                        | 1,024,262                                                                | 930,559                                                                  |
| JHARKHAND                                                                | 1,763,965                                                                | 1,450,215                                                                |
| KARNATAKA                                                                | 5,081,526                                                                | 4,905,076                                                                |
| KERALA                                                                   | 2,998,384                                                                | 2,750,074                                                                |
| LAKSHADWEEP                                                              | 1,699                                                                    | -                                                                        |
| MADHYAPRADESH                                                            | 6,618,019                                                                | 5,513,954                                                                |
| MAHARASHTRA                                                              | 9,476,776                                                                | 8,457,133                                                                |
| MANIPUR                                                                  | 224,129                                                                  | 173,789                                                                  |
| MEGHALAYA                                                                | 78,331                                                                   | 70,236                                                                   |
| MIZORAM                                                                  | 79,460                                                                   | 67,534                                                                   |
| NAGALAND                                                                 | 183,760                                                                  | 168,749                                                                  |
| ODISHA                                                                   | 3,792,320                                                                | 3,628,657                                                                |
| PUDUCHERRY                                                               | 9,919                                                                    | 9,503                                                                    |
| PUNJAB                                                                   | 2,371,389                                                                | 2,240,064                                                                |
| RAJASTHAN                                                                | 6,254,316                                                                | 5,204,512                                                                |
| SIKKIM                                                                   | 11,760                                                                   | 11                                                                       |
| TAMILNADU                                                                | 3,709,674                                                                | 3,502,323                                                                |
| TELANGANA TRIPURA                                                        | 3,629,527                                                                | 3,480,436                                                                |
|                                                                          | 200,245                                                                  | 194,695                                                                  |
| UTTAR PRADESH                                                            | 23,003,675                                                               | 18,735,405                                                               |
| UTTARAKHAND                                                              | 751,364                                                                  | 701,767                                                                  |
| WEST BENGAL                                                              | -                                                                        | -                                                                        |

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