More than five crore farmers of the country have not received the third installment of two thousand rupees under the PM-Kisan scheme. The Ministry of Agriculture has given this information in response to an RTI. Under this scheme, farmers were announced to receive an installment of two thousand rupees every four months from government. The scheme was launched on December 1, 2018. The government had announced to give six thousand rupees in a total of three installments, including only those farmers who have a very little land.
According to the data released by the government, 2.51 crore farmers have not received the second installment. At the same time, the number of farmers not getting the third installment is 5.16 crores. Between December 2018 and November 2019, around nine crore farmers had registered under this scheme. Only 7.62 crore farmers got the first installment. In response to the RTI filed by the PTI correspondent, the ministry said that 6.5 crore farmers got the second installment and 3.85 crore farmers got the third installment.
The ministry said that from December 2018 to March 2019, a total of 4.74 crore farmers had registered. Of these, 4.22 crore farmers got the first installment, 4.02 crore farmers and 3.85 crore farmers got the third installment.
