{"id":5867,"date":"2020-01-24T15:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:33:42","slug":"pm-kisan-scheme-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/pm-kisan-scheme-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"PM-KISAN Scheme: Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Polity: Governance: Schemes and policies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5868\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/PM-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Context<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PM-KISAN scheme\u2019s support has not reached farmers in most of the country\u2019s regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>About PM-KISAN<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme aims to supplement the financial needs of the farmers in procuring various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields, commensurate with the anticipated farm income.<br \/>\n\u2022 The scheme\u2019s original objective, to \u201csupplement financial needs\u201d of the country\u2019s Small and Marginal Farmers (SMFs) and to \u201caugment\u201d farm incomes, has now been broadened to include all categories of agricultural landowners.<br \/>\n\u2022 The revised Scheme is expected to cover around 2 crore more farmers, increasing the coverage of PM-KISAN to around 14.5 crore beneficiaries, with an estimated expenditure by Central Government of Rs. 87,217.50 crores for year 2019-20.<br \/>\n\u2022 Earlier, under the scheme, financial benefit has been provided to all Small and Marginal landholder farmer families with total cultivable holding upto 2 hectares with a benefit of Rs.6000 per annum per family payable in three equal installments, every four months.<br \/>\n\u2022 Now the cash transfer is not linked to the size of the farmer\u2019s land, unlike Telangana\u2019s Rythu Bandhu scheme, under which farmers receive \u20b98,000 per annum for every acre owned.<br \/>\n\u2022 Though what the programme offers is meagre, it promises some relief to poor farmers by partially supplementing their input costs or consumption needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Key practical issues with the scheme<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though the first quarterly installment, for the December 2018-March 2019 period, was to be provided in the last financial year, the benefits of PM-KISAN have not reached farmers in most parts of the country.<br \/>\n\u2022 With kharif cultivation activity under way already, the scheme\u2019s potential to deliver is contingent on its immediate implementation.<br \/>\n\u2022 There are 125 million farming households owning small and marginal holdings of land in the country, who constitute the scheme\u2019s original intended beneficiaries.<br \/>\n\u2022 However, at present, the list of beneficiaries includes only 32% (40.27 million) of these households.<br \/>\n\u2022 Further, a majority of the intended beneficiary households are yet to receive even their first installment of \u20b92,000. Only 27% (33.99 million) received the first installment, and only 24% (29.76 million) received the second.<br \/>\n\u2022 In budgetary terms, only 17% of the estimated \u20b975,000 crore expenditure has been spent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Structural Issues<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PM-KISAN offers \u20b96,000 a year per household in three instalments. Broadly speaking, this amounts to only about a tenth of the production cost per hectare or consumption expenditure for a poor household.<br \/>\n\u2022 While landless tenants have been left out in both the schemes (PM KISAN, Rythu Bandhu) the link with land size makes the support provided by the Telangana scheme more substantial.<br \/>\n\u2022 Moreover, implementation in certain States has been prioritized.<br \/>\n\u2022 U.P., for instance, accounts for one-third of total beneficiary households 33% (11.16 million) in the first installment and 36% (10.84 million) in the second.<br \/>\n\u2022 About half of the State\u2019s SMF households have been covered, a total of 17 States have received a negligible share of the first installment, accounting for less than 9%.<br \/>\n\u2022 If the budgetary allocations shift decisively in favor of cash transfers, they will be a cause for great concern.<br \/>\n\u2022 Further, the scheme recognizes only landowners as farmers, Tenants who constitute 13.7% of farm households and incur the additional input cost of land rent, don\u2019t stand to gain anything if no part of the cultivated land is owned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Measures needed<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the scheme to be effective, PM-KISAN needs to be uniformly implemented across regions.<br \/>\n\u2022 Cash transfers will cease to be effective if the state withdraws from its other long-term budgetary commitments in agricultural markets and areas of infrastructure such as irrigation.<br \/>\n\u2022 Subsidies for inputs, extension services, and procurement assurances provide a semblance of stability to agricultural production.<br \/>\n\u2022 Food security through the National Food Security Act is also closely linked to government interventions in grain markets.<br \/>\n\u2022 There is a strong case to include landless tenants and other poor families to the scheme.<br \/>\n\u2022 PM-KISAN can be formulated in the sidelines of Odisha\u2019s Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme, which includes even poor rural households that do not own land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moreover, though the scheme is conceptualized to supplement agricultural inputs, it ceases to be so without the necessary link with scale of production (farm size) built into it.<br \/>\n\u2022 It becomes, in effect, an income supplement to landowning households.<br \/>\n\u2022 Thus if income support is indeed the objective, the most deserving need to be given precedence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Polity: Governance: Schemes and policies Context PM-KISAN scheme\u2019s support has not reached farmers in most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}