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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and others during the first cabinet meeting, at the Prime Ministers Office, in South Block, New Delhi, May 31, 2019. (PTI )[/caption]
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI): Fulfilling its poll promise, the Modi 2.0 government approved a proposal to extend the benefit of INR 6,000 per year under the PM-KISAN scheme to all farmers in the country.
The decision was taken in the first Cabinet meeting of the new NDA government, which came back to power, winning over 350 seats. In its manifesto for 2019 general elections, the BJP had promised to extend the scheme to all farmers.
A highly placed source said, "The Cabinet today approved extension of the PM-KISAN scheme to all farmers".
The INR 75,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Siddhi (PMKSS) was announced in the interim budget, under which the government decided to provide INR 6,000 per year (in three equal installments) to an estimated 12 crore small and marginal farmers holding land up to 2 hectares.
Already, 3.11 crore small farmers have so far received the first tranche of INR 2,000 each under the PM-Kisan scheme and 2.75 crore peasants have got the second instalment as well, as per the official data.