Central Government pays over Rs 50,000 crore to farmers under PM-KISAN scheme

The PM-KISAN scheme launched on 24th February last year, is to provide
income support to all landholding farmers’ families across the country and
enable them to meet expenses related to agriculture as well as domestic needs. Under the Scheme, six
thousand rupees per year is transferred in installments directly into the bank
accounts of the farmers. 

Centre has released 50,850cr rupees to farmers the scheme so far. As on
the 20th of this month, 8.46 crores farmer families have been given the
benefits.The scheme initially provided income support to all small and marginal
farmers’ families across the country, holding cultivable land up to two
hectares. However, its ambit was later expanded to cover all farmer families in
the country irrespective of the size of their landholdings. Affluent farmers
have been excluded from the scheme such as income tax payers in the last
assessment year.