Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said Rs 18,253 crore has been disbursed to 91.3 million farmers under the PM-KISAN scheme during the ongoing nationwide lockdown.
Under the PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) scheme, each farmer gets Rs 6,000 in a year, in three equal installments, and directly into the bank account.
Front-loading the release of the first installment under the PM-KISAN scheme was part of the Rs 1.70 trillion Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) announced on March 26 to protect the poor from the impact of the coronavirus lockdown.
The lockdown was imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March