PM-Kisan

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

PM-Kisan

Posted On: 28 JUN 2019 by PIB Delhi

The ambit of the PM- Kisan Scheme has been expanded to cover all farmers in the country irrespective of the size of their land holdings, subject to the other existing exclusion criteria.

The total number of landholding farmers in the country is about 15.11 crore, which has been estimated on the basis of projections of Agricultural Census 2015-16 data for 2018-19. The State-wise details is at Annexure-I. The total number of beneficiary farmer families under the Scheme, after application of exclusion clause, is estimated to be 14.50 crore.

As per the provisions of the Scheme, the entire responsibility of identifying the eligible beneficiary farmers and uploading their data on PM-KISAN Portal for enabling release of benefits to them is entrusted to the State/UT Governments only. They have already been requested to expedite 100% enlistment of eligible beneficiaries for the revised Scheme and timely uploading of corrected data on PM-KISAN portal. The Central Government on its part regularly monitors the uploading of data by them through Video Conferencing with their State Nodal Officers (PM-Kisan) and Principal Secretaries (Agriculture).

Farmers who do not own any land are not eligible for this scheme; and

The survey of landless farmers has not been conducted, therefore, their exact numbers are not available. However, State-wise number of wholly leased-in operational holdings as per the Agriculture Census 2010-11 is available and is annexed at Annexure-II.  Various schemes run by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare aim at benefitting the cultivators irrespective of the ownership status, though the PM-Kisan Scheme’s benefit is aimed at land owning farmers.

Annexure-I

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) AND (b) OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 793 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 28.06.2019

Projected operational holdings for 2018-19
Sl. No.	States/UTs	Projected holdings 2018-19
		Number
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	9060622
2	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	115261
3	ASSAM	2752922
4	BIHAR	17080379
5	CHHATTISGARH	4145911
6	GOA	59625
7	GUJARAT	5566106
8	HARYANA	1644072
9	HIMACHAL PRADESH	1021356
10	JAMMU & KASHMIR	1436069
11	JHARKHAND	2759963
12	KARNATAKA	9088868
13	KERALA	7848898
14	MADHYA PRADESH	10805149
15	MAHARASHTRA	15100885
16	MANIPUR	151237
17	MEGHALAYA	243368
18	MIZORAM	90239
19	NAGALAND	207591
20	ODISHA	5057212
21	PUNJAB	1126501
22	RAJASTHAN	8211322
23	SIKKIM	66278
24	TAMIL NADU	7902531
25	TELANGANA	6322237
26	TRIPURA	578471
27	UTTAR PRADESH	24370682
28	UTTARAKHAND	874070
29	WEST BENGAL	7356557
30	A & N ISLANDS	12126
31	CHANDIGARH	689
32	D & N HAVELI	15337
33	DAMAN & DIU	8321
34	DELHI	19857
35	LAKSHADWEEP	10522
36	PUDUCHERRY	34764
	ALL INDIA	151146000

Annexure-II

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (d) OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 793 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 28.06.2019

State-wise approximate number of wholly leased-in operational holdings as per the Agriculture Census 2010-11
Sl. No.	States/Uts	Approximate number of operational holdings ('00)
		Number
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	328
2	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	0
3	ASSAM	4
4	BIHAR	22
5	CHHATTISGARH	9
6	GOA	59
7	GUJARAT	0
8	HARYANA	Negligible
9	HIMACHAL PRADESH	14
10	JAMMU & KASHMIR	6
11	JHARKHAND	7
12	KARNATAKA	0
13	KERALA	48
14	MADHYA PRADESH	104
15	MAHARASHTRA	Negligible
16	MANIPUR	50
17	MEGHALAYA	0
18	MIZORAM	0
19	NAGALAND	3
20	ODISHA	2193
21	PUNJAB	19
22	RAJASTHAN	65
23	SIKKIM	9
24	TAMIL NADU	120
25	TELANGANA	State created in 2014
26	TRIPURA	14
27	UTTAR PRADESH	3036
28	UTTARAKHAND	3
29	WEST BENGAL	1124
30	A & N ISLANDS	Negligible
31	CHANDIGARH	0
32	D & N HAVELI	0
33	DAMAN & DIU	0
34	DELHI	0
35	LAKSHADWEEP	0
36	PUDUCHERRY	2
	ALL INDIA	7239

Total may not tally due to rounding off.

This Information was given by the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Rajya Sabha today

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Source: PIB