SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 17 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 25 of 98

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In Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, beneficiaries are provided with how much amount every year?

(a)₹4,000
(b)₹6,000
(c)₹5,000
(d)₹3,000

Answer

Why

Correct — B. PM-KISAN pays each beneficiary family ₹6,000 a year, which is option (b).

The money goes out in three equal instalments of ₹2,000, one every four months, straight into the beneficiary's bank account through Direct Benefit Transfer.

The beneficiary is a landholding farmer family. The original two-hectare ceiling was removed in 2019, so all landholding farmer families now qualify, subject to exclusions such as institutional landholders and income-tax payers.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
₹4,000 — ₹4,000 is two instalments, not the year's total. PM-KISAN is fixed at three payments of ₹2,000, so the annual figure is ₹6,000.
(c)
₹5,000 — ₹5,000 is the maternity benefit figure under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana. It is not a PM-KISAN amount, and it does not divide into the ₹2,000 instalment.
(d)
₹3,000 — ₹3,000 belongs to a different farmer scheme — the monthly pension under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana, paid after the age of 60.

Concept

PM-KISAN is a central sector scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, funded wholly by the Union government, giving income support to landholding farmer families.

Three numbers define it: ₹6,000 a year, ₹2,000 per instalment, and three instalments spaced four months apart.

Payment is by Direct Benefit Transfer into bank accounts, with beneficiaries verified through land records, Aadhaar and e-KYC.

Scheme questions in SSC usually turn on a single number, and the risk is that a scheme has more than one.

For PM-KISAN, hold both the annual ₹6,000 and the per-instalment ₹2,000, and read the stem for which of the two it is asking.

Key facts

PM-KISAN pays ₹6,000 per year in three equal instalments of ₹2,000, one every four months.
The scheme was launched on 24 February 2019, with benefits effective from 1 December 2018.
Payments are made by Direct Benefit Transfer into the beneficiary's bank account.
It is run by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and covers all landholding farmer families after the two-hectare limit was removed in 2019.

Study next

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana and its ₹3,000 monthly pension for farmers over 60Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana premium caps for kharif, rabi and horticultural cropsCentral sector schemes against centrally sponsored schemes, and who bears the cost

Common traps

Answering ₹2,000 when the stem asks for the yearly amount rather than the instalment.
Mixing PM-KISAN with the Kisan Maandhan pension, which pays ₹3,000 a month after the age of 60.

SSC hangs scheme items on one figure and asks you to attach it to the right scheme.

The kharif premium cap of 2 percent under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is set at 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.20; the 60:40 central-state cost share of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana in plain areas at 09 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.16; and the ₹10 lakh collateral-free MUDRA ceiling at 24 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.17.

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