SRINAGAR: Official data show Jammu and Kashmir recorded 4,035,741 instalment payments totalling Rs 947.01 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme across the two most recent financial years, Parliament was told on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare placed instalment-wise state tables before the Lok Sabha that break payment rounds into instalments. For Jammu and Kashmir the 14th, 15th and 16th instalments (all falling in FY 2023-24) show 732,057; 765,561; and 825,744 beneficiary entries respectively, with amounts of Rs 176.66 crore, Rs 180.01 crore and Rs 215.16 crore. The 17th and 18th instalments (in FY 2024-25) register 853,719 and 858,660 beneficiary entries, disbursing Rs 192.53 crore and Rs 182.65 crore. Combined, those five instalments amount to Rs 947.01 crore and 4.04 million instalment entries. The ministry stressed these instalment counts reflect payments processed, not unique household enrolments.
The department reiterated that PM-KISAN is an entitlement scheme based on cultivable landholding and therefore does not carry state-wise budget allocations or targets. Since inception, the government says it has disbursed more than Rs 4.09 lakh crore through 21 instalments. The scheme transfers Rs 6,000 per eligible farmer family per year in three equal instalments via direct benefit transfer to Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts.
The Lok Sabha reply also supplied a short national audit of last-two-year operational problems: over the two years under review some 13,41,632 farmers were enrolled but did not receive any benefit, while 2,29,731 received only partial benefits. The ministry attributed these cases to incomplete or faulty verification — missing land seeding, unlinked Aadhaar to bank accounts, failure of eKYC, non-agricultural land use, duplicate family entries, voluntary surrender and, in a few cases, ineligibility due to income tax status. States and Union Territory administrations are responsible for beneficiary identification and verification before funds are released.
At the instalment level the national numbers remain large and steady. The ministry’s data show between about 8.12 crore and 9.59 crore instalment payments per round and amounts ranging from roughly Rs 20,666 crore to Rs 23,092 crore for the instalments tabled, underlining the scheme’s scale even as operational frictions persist.
The ministry said that once missing or incorrect documentation is corrected and states submit verified records, benefits are processed in subsequent instalments. It also highlighted digital access channels — the PM-KISAN portal, the PM-KISAN app and Common Service Centres — for farmer registrations and corrections. The ministry argued that the DBT architecture and Aadhaar seeding have reduced leakages and intermediaries.
