{"id":1712,"date":"2019-06-21T04:07:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:07:43","slug":"govt-extends-pm-kisan-scheme-announces-rs-6000-cash-handout-scheme-to-all-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/govt-extends-pm-kisan-scheme-announces-rs-6000-cash-handout-scheme-to-all-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends PM-KISAN scheme, announces Rs 6,000 cash handout scheme to all farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the first Cabinet meeting, Modi led new\ngovernment decided to extend PM-\nKISAN<\/strong> scheme to all 14.5 crore farmers in the country\ncosting Rs 87,000\ncrore<\/strong> a year and also announced over Rs 10,000 crore pension scheme <\/strong>for\n5 crore farmers, thereby fulfilling the BJP’s poll promise.
\nThe Rs 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman\nSiddhi <\/strong>(PMKSS – PM Kisan) was announced in the interim\nBudget under which the government decided to provide Rs 6,000 per year<\/strong> (in\nthree equal instalments) to an estimated 12.5 crore <\/strong>small and marginal\nfarmers holding land up to 2 hectares.
\nNow, the revised scheme envisages to cover\naround 2 crore more farmers increasing the coverage of the PM- KISAN to\naround 14.5 crore<\/strong> beneficiaries.
Farmer\npension scheme<\/strong>:
\nCabinet also approved the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Pension Yojana<\/strong> under\nwhich small and marginal farmers will get a minimum fixed pension of Rs 3,000 per month<\/strong> on\nattaining the age of 60 years.
\nThe scheme will cost the exchequer a total\nof \u20b910,000\ncrore <\/strong>per annum.
New\nUnion Minister of Agriculture and Farmers welfare – Narendra Singh Tomar<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the first Cabinet meeting, Modi led new government decided to extend PM- KISAN scheme to all 14.5 crore farmers in the country costing Rs 87,000 crore a year and also announced over Rs 10,000 crore pension scheme for 5 crore farmers, thereby fulfilling the BJP’s poll promise. The Rs 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Siddhi (PMKSS – PM Kisan) was announced in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}