Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar launched the PM-Kisan mobile app with a face authentication feature under the Government of India’s ambitious scheme for income support to farmers, ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi’ in New Delhi on Thursday. The best example of modern technology using the face authentication feature from this app, farmers can complete e-KYC remotely, sitting at home easily by scanning face without OTP or fingerprint and can help 100 other farmers to do e-KYC at their homes. Recognising the need to make e-KYC mandatory, the Government of India has extended the ability of farmers to perform e-KYC to officers of state governments, so that each officer can complete the e-KYC process for 500 farmers.
Thousands of farmers present in Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country, as well as officers of the Central and state governments and representatives of various government agencies and agricultural organisations were virtually connected to the event held at Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi. On this occasion, Union Minister Tomar said that Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) is a very comprehensive and ambitious scheme of the Government of India, in the implementation of which the state governments have performed their role very diligently, as a result of which we are in a position to pay the instalments of the scheme to about 8.5 crore farmers after KYC. The more refined this platform the more it will be useful for PM-Kisan and whenever any benefit has to be given to the farmers, complete data will be available to the Central and state governments, so that no problem can arise in data verification.
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The agriculture minister said that PM-Kisan is an innovative scheme whose benefits are being given by the Central government to the farmers without any middlemen. Today, it has become possible to provide benefits to such a large number of farmers only with the help of technology. The work has become much easier by using technology the GoI developed this PM Kisan mobile app. The Government of India has made all the necessary facilities available to the states, now if the states work more quickly, then we will reach to all the beneficiaries and achieve the set target.
“PM Kisan is one of the world’s largest Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes in which each farmer gets Rs 6,000 directly transferred through Aadhaar-linked bank accounts in three instalments in a year. Rs 2.42 lakh crore has been transferred to the accounts of more than 11 crore farmers, of whom more than three crore were women. The scheme has ensured necessary facilities by providing direct financial assistance to the farmers and has given them confidence in difficult times. Now the difficulties related to Aadhaar verification and bank account details updation on PM Kisan portal have been resolved by effectively using digital public goods,” Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare said.
