The Centre has made Aadhaar number of small and marginal farmers optional for availing the first installment of Rs. 2,000 under the recently launched Rs. 75,000 crore PM-Kisan scheme. However, to get the subsequent installments, it has been made compulsory for farmers to show Aadhaar number for verifying their identity.
About The Scheme
In the interim budget, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced direct income support of Rs.6,000 per year to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to 2 hectare.
The central government's fully funded scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan), will be implemented from this year and the first installment will be transferred by March.
The state governments have been asked to prepare a database of beneficiary of small and marginal landholder farmer families in the villages capturing details such as name, gender, whether belonging to SC/ST, Aadhaar, bank account number and mobile number of beneficiaries.
For the purpose of the calculation of the benefit, the Centre has defined a small and marginal landholder family as the one comprising of husband, wife and minor children up to 18 years of age, who collectively own cultivable land up to two hectare as per the land records of the concerned states.
To identify the land ownership, the Centre said it will use the existing land-ownership system prevailing in the states and union territories.
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