The scheme promises to pay Rs 6,000 a year in three instalments to farmers who own up to 2 hectares of land, with the first instalment due for the period from December 1 to March 31.
New Delhi: The government’s scheme to augment the income of small and marginal farmers will exclude families in which a member is or has been an MP, MLA or government employee as well as those who are practising professionals and those who paid income tax in the last assessment year.
The excluded professionals include doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants and architects registered with professional bodies, the agriculture ministry said in the operational guidelines for the Pradhan Mantri KIsan SAmman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme announced in the interim budget on February 1.
The government will not cover those with a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 or more.
The scheme promises to pay Rs 6,000 a year in three instalments to farmers who own up to 2 hectares of land, with the first instalment due for the period from December 1 to March 31.
States have been given a deadline of February 25 to submit lists of eligible farmers. The cut-off date for eligible farmers is February 1 of this year, after which new owners of agricultural land won’t be considered for the next five years.
“However, benefit will be allowed in those cases where transfer of ownership of cultivable land takes place on account of succession due to death of the landowner,” according to a document on the website of the Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare.
An alternative mechanism will be set up for the northeast, where land ownership is often community based, making it difficult to select eligible famers. The mechanism for eligibility of northeast farmers will be developed and approved by a committee of Union ministers from the Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER), Ministry of Land Resources, Agriculture Minister and the state chief ministers or their ministerial representative, based on the proposal by the northeast states concerned. The Centre has asked the states to identify and designate a sponsoring bank for this scheme.
“States may consider designating the same bank being used for transfer of fund for MNRGES as sponsoring bank for this scheme,” it said.
It said the designated bank should have well-developed IT systems with the capabilities of integration with the web portal of the scheme and Public FinancialManagement System (PFMS).
The excluded professionals include doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants and architects registered with professional bodies, the agriculture ministry said in the operational guidelines for the Pradhan Mantri KIsan SAmman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme announced in the interim budget on February 1.
The government will not cover those with a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 or more.
The scheme promises to pay Rs 6,000 a year in three instalments to farmers who own up to 2 hectares of land, with the first instalment due for the period from December 1 to March 31.
States have been given a deadline of February 25 to submit lists of eligible farmers. The cut-off date for eligible farmers is February 1 of this year, after which new owners of agricultural land won’t be considered for the next five years.
“However, benefit will be allowed in those cases where transfer of ownership of cultivable land takes place on account of succession due to death of the landowner,” according to a document on the website of the Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare.
An alternative mechanism will be set up for the northeast, where land ownership is often community based, making it difficult to select eligible famers. The mechanism for eligibility of northeast farmers will be developed and approved by a committee of Union ministers from the Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER), Ministry of Land Resources, Agriculture Minister and the state chief ministers or their ministerial representative, based on the proposal by the northeast states concerned. The Centre has asked the states to identify and designate a sponsoring bank for this scheme.
“States may consider designating the same bank being used for transfer of fund for MNRGES as sponsoring bank for this scheme,” it said.
It said the designated bank should have well-developed IT systems with the capabilities of integration with the web portal of the scheme and Public FinancialManagement System (PFMS).