PM KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI YOJANA India’s first national level direct benefit transfer for farmers

Inside… 1. DIRECT INCOME SUPPORT IN

DBT MODE

2. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

3. PM KISAN :INDIA’S FIRST INCOME SUPPORT SCHEME

4. OPERATIONAL METHODOLOGY

5. ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR

6. IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THE MODALITIES OF THE SCHEME

7. WAY FORWARD

DIRECT INCOME SUPPORT: A QUIET REVOLUTION

Direct Income Support addresses many Sustainable Development Goals ,

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DIRECT INCOME SUPPORT: ACROSS THE GLOBE

‘OPORTUNIDADES’ ‘BOLSA FAMILIA’

Brazil Mexico

Cash payments to families in exchange for regular school attendance, health clinic visits, and nutrition support.

Conditional Income Support

Cash transfer based on conditions like vaccinated child, attending school, preferentially to female head of household

Un-conditional Income Support

Bolivia Bangladesh

‘BONOSOL’

A universal, age based, non-contributory, central government social security program

‘Chars Livelihoods Program’

Un-conditional transfer of productive assets worth 8,000 to 13,000 Taka, including temporary stipend to the poorest households living on riverine islands.

‘Target group meeting certain conditions ’ ‘ Whole target group’ Beneficiary

PM KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI YOJANA

SALIENT FEATURES OF PM-KISAN • Transfer of Rs. 6000 every year in 3 installments, every 4 months.

• Target group: All farmers without any limit on land ownership.

• Exclusion criteria:

a. All Institutional Land holders and

b. Farmer families with member(s) belonging to following categories

CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION HOLDERS

• Former and present holders of constitutional posts

MPs, MLAs etc.

• Former & present Ministers

• Former/present Members of LS/ RS/ State Legislative Assemblies/Councils

• Former & present Mayors of Municipal Corporations or Chairpersons of District Panchayats

SERVING/ RETIRED GOVERNMENT

OFFICIALS

• Employees of Central/ State Government Ministries, Departments and its field units

• Central or State PSEs and Autonomous Institutions under Government

• Regular employees of the Local Bodies

WORKING PROFESSIONALS

• Doctors

• Engineers

• Lawyers

• Chartered Accountants, and Architects etc. registered with Professional bodies

• Persons who paid Income Tax in last assessment year

PENSIONERS

• Superannuated/retired pensioners with monthly pension >=Rs.10,000/ (Excluding MTS/Group-IV/Group D Employees)

OPERATIONAL FLOW OF PM-KISAN

Rejected Data at all levels of authentication is sent back to states for correction

State uploads farmer details on PM KISAN portal and the system validates the records for junk data or duplicity

Accepted data is sent to PFMS for account number and type validation

List sent back to states for final approval

Eligible records available for generation of Request for Fund Transfer (RFT)

Signed RFTs are sent to PFMS for FTO generation

Creation of sanction orders by DAC&FW for approved FTOs.

Payment is processed and the beneficiary list is made available on the portal

• State to certify the beneficiary based on self declaration

• Setting up of PMU as registered Society (National Farmers’ Welfare Data Management Society)

• A High Level Committee, comprising of Union Ministers of Finance, Agriculture and Land Resources to make necessary modifications in the Scheme

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SNOs

Banks

DAC, MoA&FW

NIC Portal

PFMS

Agencies involved in PM-KISAN team

IMPLEMENTATION OF PM-KISAN

UIDAI

SATURATION STATUS

64% % beneficiaries added by the states

13.32 Cr

Estimated Beneficiaries

8.57 Cr

States with low saturation status: Sikkim, Goa, MP, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Puducherry

SNAPSHOT OF PAYMENT PROCESS

98.81% Transactions are

successful out of the total

The amount is sent to beneficiary accounts

The amount is sent to corresponding beneficiary banks/post offices

Thereafter it goes to Sponsor banks of respective States

Amount is transferred to Central Bank

Farmer receives the money

FTOs and Sanctions are generated

Installment No No. of beneficiaries paid installment

1st Installment 6.63 Cr

2nd Installment 4.22 Cr

3rd Installment 1.72 Cr

Long-term benefits of PM KISAN : UDIS to farmers

Reduction in farmer distress

WTO compatible (Green-box Support)

Protection of living standards and promotion of asset ownership

Income Support is crop neutral; hence superior to Price Support

Break in the vicious cycle of inter-generational poverty

Protection against income loss from agriculture

Accelerating progress towards SDGs

Access to goods and services in case of market failure

UDIS: Unconditional Direct Income Support

IMPROVEMENT IN MODALITIES OF THE SCHEME

Introduction of Farmers Corner • Self-registration

• Beneficiary Status

• Updation of name in case of Aadhar rejected records

Digital signing of RFTs:

Facility for Digital signature enrolment and digital approval of RFT.

Automation of various steps for smooth flow of data: Pre-defined XML format to reduce junk

data at the grass-root level.

Integrated master list of IFSCs to auto-validate bank details

Automated data transfer to PFMS for account-based verification

Automated generation of FTOs on receiving signed RFTs from state.

Physical verification of beneficiaries in 5% villages

Correction window opened for states: The states have been provided facilities to access data rejected at various levels:

Correction on Invalid Account Type

First Level PFMS Rejected Data

PFMS Bank Transaction Failure Data

Correction on Stop Payment Data

PM KISAN Status Report

District-wise Status

Lot-wise closure Report

Transaction status analysis

Demand generation report

Rejected data at various levels

Reports & Analytics

IMPROVEMENT IN MODALITIES OF THE SCHEME contd…

Bulk authentication of registered farmers

Installment in this trimester paid only to

Aadhar demo-authenticated records Correction of Aadhar rejected data at

multiple levels: SNO login on portal Farmers’ Corner on PM-KISAN portal CSCs

Exemption for 3 States- Assam, Meghalaya and J&K from Aadhaar seeding.

Funds released for aadhar authenticated records= 2.23 Cr

AADHAR SEEDED DATA FOR TRIMESTER AUG’19- NOV’19

“A new form of reform: Unique fingerprint on every farmer’s installment”

WAY FORWARD

Integration with CBDT database for verification of farmer status

GIS based reporting for real time information

Online grievance module with region-specific filter

Farmer identification in employment/pension database using

APIs.

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