Lok Sabha Question No. 3820 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-12
Subject: PM-Kisan Scheme in Punjab
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Amrinder Singh Raja Warring

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3820

TO BE ANSWERED ON 12 TH  AUGUST, 2025

## PM-KISAN SCHEME IN PUNJAB

3820. SHRI AMRINDER SINGH RAJA WARRING:

Will the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण मंğी be pleased to state: (a) the number of farmers who have been excluded from the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme in the last five years in Punjab, along with reasons for their removal and any corrective steps being considered to re-include genuine beneficiaries; (b) whether the number of farmers dropped from the said scheme since 2019, State and yearwise; (c)  whether the  Ministry conducted  any  review  or audit  to identify genuine farmers wrongly removed from the beneficiary list, if so, the details thereof; (d) whether there is any timeline proposed to re-verify and re-include eligible farmers; (e) whether the Government has earmarked any budgetary allocations in the Budget 2025 to re-include farmers in PM-Kisan Nidhi Scheme; (f) whether the details of grievance redressal mechanisms in place at the State and district level to address beneficiary complaints under the scheme?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण राÏय मंğी (SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR)

(a) & (b): The PM-KISAN scheme is a central sector scheme launched in February 2019 by the Hon'ble Prime Minister to supplement the financial needs of farmers with cultivable land-holding. Under the scheme, a financial benefit of Rs 6,000/- per year is transferred  in  three  equal  instalments,  into  the  Aadhaar  seeded  bank  accounts  of farmers through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode.

To  ensure that the benefits are provided only to the eligible beneficiaries, land seeding, Aadhaar-based payment and e-KYC have been made mandatory under the scheme. Land seeding was made mandatory during the release of the 12th instalment of  the  scheme (August 2022 - November 2022), and Aadhaar-based payment was made mandatory from the 13th instalment (December 2022 - March 2023) onwards. e-KYC was made mandatory from the 15th instalment (April 2023 - July 2023).  In this process, the total numbers of beneficiaries who benefited in the scheme in the 12th Instalment  period  was  temporarily  reduced  across  the  states.  This  decrease  was nominal in the States who proactively undertook suitable measures and completed the above said mandatory requirements.

The benefits of the farmers, who do not complete these mandatory criteria, are temporarily stopped. As and when  these farmers complete their mandatory requirements, they receive the benefits of the scheme along with their accrued benefits of  previous  instalments.  This  process does  not  cause  any financial  loss  to  eligible farmers under the Scheme.

Benefit  of  the  PM-KISAN  scheme  is  transferred  to  the  beneficiaries  through Direct  Benefit  Transfer  (DBT)  mode,  based  on  the  verified  data  received  from  the States/UTs on the PM-KISAN portal. To ease the registration process for farmers and bring  in  transparency  and  efficiency  in  implementation  of  the  Scheme,  several technological interventions were introduced, including integration with PFMS, UIDAI, and the Income Tax Department. Further, PM-KISAN database is verified with respect to the PDS database of ration cards, inactivated Aadhaar due to death etc. as updated in UIDAI portal and deduplication with PFMS and Income Tax data.

A farmer-centric digital infrastructure has ensured the benefits of the scheme reach all the farmers across the country without involvement of any intermediaries. Maintaining  absolute  transparency  in  registering  and  verifying  beneficiaries,  the Government of India has disbursed over Rs 3.90 lakh Cr. through 20 installments since inception  of  the  Scheme.  The  instalment-wise  details  of  benefits  released  to beneficiaries  of  Punjab  since  inception  of  the  Scheme,  as  on  04.08.2025  are  at Annexure.

(c) & (d): In order to ensure that no eligible farmers are left out from the Scheme, the  Government  of  India  undertakes  saturation  drives,  on  a  regular  basis,  in coordination  with  the  State  Governments. A  major nationwide saturation drive was undertaken from 15th November 2023 under the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (VBSY), during  which, more than  1.0 Cr.  farmers  were included under PM-KISAN. Further, under the new Government's 100 days initiative, around 25 lakh more eligible farmers were added to the PM-KISAN scheme. Additionally, a special drive was conducted from September 2024 to clear the pending self-registration cases, where over 30 lakh farmers were added to the scheme.

(e): In the financial year 2025-26, ₹ 63,500 crore have been allocated for PM-Kisan Scheme. The 20 th  instalment of PM-Kisan scheme was released on 2 nd  August, 2025 and more than 9.71 crore beneficiaries received benefits amounting to more than ₹ 20,500 Cr.  Out of this, more than 11.34 lakh beneficiaries from Punjab received the benefit amounting to Rs. 387.76 crores.

(f): To ensure the prompt resolution of issues faced by the farmers under the PMKISAN scheme, following grievance redressal mechanisms are in place:

-  CPGRAMS portal
-  PM KISAN portal
-  Physical receipts and emails

Further, to enhance grievance redressal, the AI-based Kisan eMitra Chatbot was launched in September 2023. This Chatbot provides quick, accurate, and clear responses to farmers' queries round the clock in their native languages, making the system more accessible and user-friendly. It is accessible on all platforms such as web,  mobile,  etc.  The  Kisan  eMitra  Chatbot  currently  operates  in  11  languagesEnglish, Hindi, Odia, Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, and Marathi-and has successfully resolved over 95 lakh queries from 53 lakh farmers as on 04.08.2025.

## Annexure

## Instalment-wise details of the beneficiaries of Punjab and amount released to them under PM-KISAN since inception of the Scheme, as on 04.08.2025

| Instalment No. & period                     | Beneficiaries benefited   |   Amount Released (Rs. in Crore) |
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1 st instalment (Dec., 2018 - March, 2019)  | 1,181,930                 |                           236.39 |
| 2 nd Instalment (April, 2019 - July, 2019)  | 1,411,655                 |                           312.85 |
| 3 rd Instalment (August, 2019 - Nov, 2019)  | 2,221,746                 |                           483.42 |
| 4 th Instalment (Dec., 2019- March, 2020)   | 2,301,322                 |                           466.47 |
| 5 th Instalment (April, 2020- July, 2020)   | 1,901,762                 |                           417.89 |
| 6 th Instalment (August, 2020- Nov, 2020)   | 1,904,615                 |                           384.87 |
| 7 th Instalment (Dec., 2020- March, 2021)   | 1,871,663                 |                           374.47 |
| 8 th Instalment (April, 2021- July, 2021)   | 1,760,007                 |                           357.07 |
| 9 th Instalment (August, 2021- Nov, 2021)   | 1,738,694                 |                           349.17 |
| 10 th Instalment (Dec., 2021- March, 2022)  | 1,713,939                 |                           349.63 |
| 11 th Instalment (April, 2022 - July, 2022) | 1,697,473                 |                           340.95 |
| 12 th Instalment (August, 2022 - Nov, 2022) | 207,564                   |                            41.87 |
| 13 th Instalment (Dec, 2022 - March, 2023)  | 861,030                   |                           308.7  |
| 14 th Instalment (April, 2023 - July, 2023) | 856,739                   |                           182.42 |
| 15 th Instalment (August, 2023 - Nov, 2023) | 497,229                   |                           152.67 |
| 16 th Instalment (Dec., 2023 - March, 2024) | 717,316                   |                           247.64 |
| 17 th Instalment (April, 2024 - July, 2024) | 840,274                   |                           290.56 |
| 18 th Instalment (August, 2024 - Nov, 2024) | 926,150                   |                           272.82 |
| 19 th Instalment (Dec., 2024 - March, 2025) | 1,058,688                 |                           373.04 |
| 20 th Instalment (April, 2025 - July, 2025) | 1,134,567                 |                           387.76 |

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