More than Rs 3.70 lakh crore have been disbursed to over 11 crore farmer families in the country through 20 instalments under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme to date, an official statement said Wednesday.

The benefits of the scheme are being provided to those farmers whose land details are seeded in the PM KISAN portal, who have bank accounts seeded with Aadhaar, and eKYC is completed.

In order to provide income support to all landholding farmers’ families with cultivable land in the country, the Central Government launched the PM-KISAN scheme February 24, 2019. The scheme offers annual financial assistance of Rs. 6,000 to each eligible farmer family, delivered in three equal instalments of Rs. 2,000 e, into their Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts of farmers through DB

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