PM Modi launches Kisan scheme\, over 1 crore farmers get first instalment

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Modi launches Kisan scheme, over 1 crore farmers get first instalment

A farmer ploughing his agricultural field using a tractor at the outskirt of Lucknow

A farmer ploughing his agricultural field using a tractor at the outskirt of Lucknow   | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt

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“This is your money and no one will be able to take it from you,” Mr. Modi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 24 launched the ambitious 'Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi' (PM-KISAN) scheme transferring the first instalment of ₹2,000 each to over one crore farmers.

Launching the scheme from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, the Prime Minister said the first instalment of money under the scheme has been deposited in accounts of 1.01 crore farmers and those who didn’t get it on February 24 will get it in due course.

“This is your money and no one will be able to take it from you,” he told the farmers.

The Prime Minister said the scheme has been made foolproof so that no one can take away the right of the farmers. There is no role of middleman in this scheme, he said.

In the Interim Budget 2019-20, the Central government had announced the PM-KISAN scheme under which ₹6,000 per year will be given in three instalments to 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding cultivable land up to two hectares.

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