18th installment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi will be released today: Rs 20 thousand crore will be transferred to the accounts of 9.5 crore farmers.

Under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, the government transfers Rs 6000 to the accounts of farmers every year in three installments of Rs 2 thousand each.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 18th installment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi tomorrow i.e. on 5th October (Saturday). This time an installment of Rs 2,000 each will be sent to the accounts of 9.5 crore farmers. That means a total amount of Rs 20 thousand crore will be transferred.

Under this scheme, the government gives Rs 6,000 to farmers every year in 3 installments of Rs 2,000 each. The first installment is released between April-July, the second installment between August-November and the third installment between December-March. Under the scheme, the government has so far sent an amount of more than Rs 3 lakh crore to the accounts of farmers in 17 installments.

9.26 crore farmers got benefits in the 17th installment

The Prime Minister had released the 17th installment of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi on June 18. Then an installment of Rs 2,000 each was sent to the accounts of 9.26 crore farmers. That means a total amount of Rs 20 thousand crore was transferred. This scheme was started in 2019 to provide financial assistance to farmers.

What to do if the installment has not come?

If you are facing any problem in the registration of this scheme, or have any problem related to your installment, or have any other question, then for this you will have to go to the help desk in the Farmer’s Corner on the official website of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.

After clicking on the help desk, enter your Aadhaar number, account number or mobile number here. On clicking Get Details the query form will appear. Here in the drop down, options related to account number, payment, Aadhaar and other problems are given. Choose it according to your problem and also write its description below. Submit it now.

Eligible beneficiaries of the scheme can also register themselves through Common Service Center (CSC). Apart from this, only the local Patwari, Revenue Officer and the nodal officer nominated by the State Government for the scheme are registering the farmers.

All farmers get benefits under PM Kisan Yojana

​​​​​​​Initially when the PM-Kisan scheme was launched (February, 2019), its benefits were only for the families of small and marginal farmers. This included those farmers who had combined land holding up to 2 hectares. In June 2019, the scheme was revised and extended to all farmer families.

However, some farmers are still left out of the scheme. Those excluded from PM Kisan are institutional land holders, farmer families holding constitutional positions, serving or retired officers and employees of the state or central government. It also includes officers and employees of public sector undertakings and government autonomous bodies.

Apart from these, professionals like doctors, engineers and lawyers as well as retired pensioners with monthly pension of more than Rs 10,000 and those who paid income tax in the previous assessment year have also been excluded from this scheme.