Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a central government scheme that pays every eligible landholding farmer family ₹6,000 per year as income support, in three instalments of ₹2,000 directly into the bank account.

All landholding farmer families — husband, wife and minor children — whose names appear in the state land records, unless an exclusion applies (income-tax payers, government employees, pensioners drawing ₹10,000+ per month, practising professionals, institutional landholders and holders of public office).

Institutional landholders; families where any member is or was a constitutional post holder, minister, MP, MLA, mayor or district panchayat chairperson; serving or retired government employees (except Group D/MTS); pensioners drawing ₹10,000 or more per month (except Group D/MTS); anyone who paid income tax in the last assessment year; and practising doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants and architects.

₹6,000 per family per year, paid as three equal instalments of ₹2,000 — one in each four-month period: April–July, August–November and December–March.

Go to pmkisan.gov.in, open “New Farmer Registration”, enter your Aadhaar number, state and captcha, then fill in your personal, bank and land-record details. You can also apply through any Common Service Centre (CSC) or your state agriculture office.

Aadhaar card (mandatory), the land record (khatauni / Record of Rights), a bank account with IFSC that is seeded with Aadhaar, and a mobile number. A passport-size photo is needed when applying through a CSC.

Yes. No instalment is released without e-KYC. You can complete OTP-based e-KYC on pmkisan.gov.in, biometric e-KYC at any CSC, or face-authentication e-KYC in the official PM-KISAN mobile app.

Open “Know Your Status / Beneficiary Status” on pmkisan.gov.in and search with your registration number, or call the 24×7 IVRS helpline 155261. The status shows registration, e-KYC and each instalment.

The 23rd instalment was released on 20 June 2026 — over ₹18,880 crore transferred to more than 9.44 crore farmer families for the April–July 2026-27 period. The 24th instalment will cover August–November 2026; its date is announced by the ministry when it is released.

The three most common reasons are: e-KYC not completed, land records not seeded/verified with the portal, or the name on Aadhaar not matching the bank account. Check “Beneficiary Status” on pmkisan.gov.in to see exactly which step is pending, fix it, and the next instalment resumes.

No. The scheme is restricted to families whose names appear in the land records as landholders. Farmers who cultivate rented land without owning any recorded land are not covered.

No. The scheme defines the family as husband, wife and minor children, and pays one benefit of ₹6,000 per year per family — even if both spouses hold land separately.

No. PM-KISAN is a grant — unconditional income support. Nothing has to be repaid and no interest is involved. (Recovery is sought only from people who took the benefit while ineligible.)

Registration on pmkisan.gov.in is free. CSCs may charge a small notified service fee for assisted registration and biometric e-KYC. Nobody official will ever ask for money to “release” an instalment — treat any such call as fraud.

Use the “Updation of Self Registered Farmer” / mobile-update options on pmkisan.gov.in, or visit a CSC. Since payments follow Aadhaar-based DBT, the safest fix for bank issues is to seed your current account with Aadhaar at the bank.

The 24×7 IVRS helpline is 155261, and the PM-KISAN help desk is 011-24300606. You can also email [email protected] or file a grievance on pmkisan.gov.in.