A farmer income support scheme known as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana was announced by the finance minister of India. This scheme was presented in the budget of 2019 on February 1st, 2019 in the national assembly. Under the scheme all the small and marginal farmers with land will get financial assistance of Rs 6000 every year. In this article we will discuss in detail the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.
The main objective of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna was to provide financial support to farmers and assess them in buying various inputs that are needed during the showing seasons. This scheme was targeted for all the small and marginal farmers across the country.
The various important highlights of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana are listed below:
The state or union territory government will be responsible for identifying the family of the landholder farmer who is eligible to avail the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. The states will then prepare a database of the eligible farmer families by acquiring the basic details like the name, age, gender, category and Aadhar number etc. In addition to these, various identification documents like driving licence, voter ID, Nrega job card, bank account number and IFSC code are all required. The governments of the states and union territories will also ensure that there is no duplicate payment transfer to the eligible farmers.
Under the Pradhan mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, small and marginal land holder farmer families are provided financial benefit across the country:
Following eligibility criteria must be satisfied by the citizens in order to apply for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana:
The categories of beneficiaries who cannot receive the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana are listed below:
The most important and mandatory documents that need to be possessed by a citizen of India in order to apply for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana are as follows:
The applicant will have to furnish the photocopies of Aadhar card on receiving the fund in instalments. In case the beneficiary fails to do so, then he will not be able to accept any funds.
Necessary steps have been taken by the central government in order to implement the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Any information related to the process of applying to the scheme has not been disclosed. Once all the processes have been confirmed, a citizen will be able to apply to the scheme easily through the government portal.
The mechanism of reviewing, monitoring and grievance redressal
There is a graded review and monitoring mechanism at the national, state and district level. The state and the district level review and monitoring committee are notified by the states. The state and district level grievance redressal monitoring committees are also informed to look into all the grievances related to the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana and dispose of them on merit within two weeks.
In this blog, we discussed in detail the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, its objectives, its highlights and the implementation strategy for the scheme. We also discussed the eligibility criteria for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, the documents required, application procedure and the reviewing, monitoring and Grievance redressal methodology of the scheme.