PM Kisan Samman Nidhi: how the ₹6,000 support works

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, usually called PM-KISAN or PM Kisan, is the Government of India’s income support for farmer families that own cultivable land. An eligible family receives ₹6,000 a year, paid as three equal installments of ₹2,000 straight into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account. There is no fee to join, no agent is needed, and every action — registration, eKYC, status, corrections and complaints — happens on the official portal at pmkisan.gov.in, in the PM-KISAN app, at a Common Service Centre, or through your state agriculture and revenue officials.

The 24th installment, released on 30 October 2026, is the latest of 24 payments of ₹2,000. Nothing here asks for your Aadhaar number, registration number, phone number or bank details.

What PM-KISAN pays and who runs it

PM-KISAN is a Central Sector scheme funded fully by the Government of India. It came into effect from 1 December 2018 and was launched by the Prime Minister on 24 February 2019. The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, runs the scheme centrally, while each State and Union Territory government identifies and verifies the eligible families in its area.

The money is paid in three four-month periods every year:

• December to March
• April to July
• August to November

Each period carries one installment of ₹2,000. When the scheme started it covered only small and marginal farmers with up to 2 hectares. From 1 June 2019 it was extended to all landholding farmer families, whatever the size of their land.

In July 2026 the Union Cabinet approved the continuation of PM-KISAN from 2026-27 to 2030-31 with a total outlay of ₹3.15 lakh crore. The Union Budget 2026-27 allocated ₹60,000 crore to the scheme for that year.

Latest installment: the 24th, released 30 October 2026

The 24th installment was released on 30 October 2026 at Banaskantha, Gujarat. According to the Press Information Bureau, more than ₹18,690 crore reached over 9.34 crore farmers in that release. Across 24 installments, more than ₹4.64 lakh crore has been paid to farmer families since 2019.

The 24th installment belongs to the August–November 2026-27 period. The next one, the 25th, belongs to the December–March 2026-27 period. The Government had not announced a date for it on 12 November 2026. Any website or message that gives you a “confirmed” date before the Government announces it is guessing. See the complete PM Kisan installment list for every release from the 1st to the 24th.

Who is eligible and who is excluded

The basic rule is simple: the family must own cultivable land that is recorded in its own name in the state’s land records. For the scheme, a family means husband, wife and minor children.

Some families are excluded even if they own land. Under the exclusion list, a family cannot receive PM-KISAN if any member:

• is an institutional landholder (land held by a trust, company or institution is not covered),
• holds or has held a constitutional post,
• is or was a Minister, MP, MLA, MLC, Mayor of a Municipal Corporation or Chairperson of a District Panchayat,
• is a serving or retired officer or regular employee of central or state government, a public sector undertaking, an autonomous body under government, or a local body — except Multi Tasking Staff, Class IV and Group D employees,
• is a retired pensioner drawing ₹10,000 or more a month (again with the Group D exception),
• paid income tax in the last assessment year, or
• is a registered doctor, engineer, lawyer, chartered accountant or architect who is practising.

Families who are Non-resident Indians under the Income Tax Act are excluded for new registrations. Tenant farmers and sharecroppers without land in their own name are not covered, because landholding is the only qualifying criterion.

The cut-off date for eligibility is 1 February 2019. Land that reached you after that date through inheritance on the death of the owner still counts. Land bought, gifted or given by partition deed after that date does not make the new owner eligible. The full rules, with a quick eligibility checker, are on the PM Kisan eligibility page.

The three things every beneficiary needs

Being eligible is only the first step. Payments go out only when three conditions are met at the same time:

1. eKYC is complete. eKYC links your PM-KISAN record to your Aadhaar. It is mandatory for every registered farmer. You can finish it with an OTP on the portal, with a fingerprint at a Common Service Centre, or with a face scan in the PM-KISAN app. See how PM Kisan eKYC works.
2. Land seeding is done. Your state verifies your land record and attaches it to your PM-KISAN entry. If land seeding shows “No”, only state officials can correct it. See land seeding.
3. Your bank account is Aadhaar-seeded with NPCI. Money is sent to the account that is mapped to your Aadhaar in the NPCI mapper. Simply giving your Aadhaar to the bank is not always enough. See Aadhaar-bank seeding.

When any one of these is missing, the installment usually stops. Our page on why PM Kisan payments stop lists each status message and who can fix it.

How to register as a new farmer

A farmer who is not yet in the scheme can register in several ways: through New Farmer Registration on the official portal, through the PM-KISAN app, at a Common Service Centre, or with the village revenue official or agriculture office that your state has named. Online, the portal first authenticates your Aadhaar with UIDAI. After you submit, the form goes to your State Nodal Officer, who verifies your land and details before you can receive anything.

By August 2025, many states required a Farmer ID from the AgriStack farmer registry before a new PM-KISAN registration. In March 2026 the Government said Farmer ID was mandatory for new registrations in the 19 states where farmer registry work had started; elsewhere farmers could still register without it. The requirement applies to new registrations only. Step-by-step help is on the PM Kisan new registration page.

Key facts at a glance

Check status, update details and get help

Use only the links in the task table. Each one opens on the PM-KISAN portal or another government website.

For phone help, the Government’s farmer assistant Bharati, part of Bharat-VISTAAR, answers on 155261. It can tell you your PM-KISAN status and register and track a complaint. The Kisan e-Mitra chatbot answers PM-KISAN questions in 11 languages. Read more on Kisan e-Mitra and Bharati and on the helpline and grievance page.

Fraud warnings

PM-KISAN scams usually follow a few patterns. Keep these rules in mind:

• No one can release your installment for a fee. Registration on the official portal is free. At a Common Service Centre, the convenience fee for biometric eKYC is ₹15.
• Never share an OTP. Government staff will not ask you for your bank OTP, ATM PIN or UPI PIN to fix PM-KISAN.
• Install the app only from Google Play. The official app is published by the National Informatics Centre. Do not install APK files sent on WhatsApp or SMS.
• Ignore “₹12,000 from now on” messages. The benefit is ₹6,000 a year. In August 2025 the Government told Parliament that no proposal to raise it was under consideration.
• Check the address bar. The official portal is pmkisan.gov.in. Lookalike addresses that end in something else are not the government.

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