PM-Kisan: Rs 416cr recovered from ineligible tillers

NEW DELHI: Govt has recovered Rs 416 crore from

ineligible farmers

under the central income support scheme, PM-Kisan, since its launch in 2019, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan informed Lok Sabha Tuesday.
The central govt has disbursed over Rs 3.68 lakh crore to farmers in 19 instalments since inception of the scheme under which a financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is transferred in three equal instalments into Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts of eligible landholder farmers.
Chouhan in his written response explained that

PM-Kisan scheme

initially started on a trust-based system, where beneficiaries were registered by the states on a self-certification basis. Initially,

Aadhaar seeding

was also relaxed for some of the states, he said.
In order to ensure that benefits are released only to the eligible beneficiaries, land seeding, Aadhaar-based payment and eKYC have been made mandatory.