The officials of Agriculture Department have commenced the exercise of identifying farmers who will be eligible for the newly announced PM Kisan Samman Yojana scheme. Towards this end, officials held a meeting in the village and explained to farmers as to who all will be eligible for the scheme. “The Union Government has issued certain guidelines for selecting beneficiaries under the scheme.

A family with wife, husband and two children will be treated as a single unit and the land extent combined must not be more than two-and-a-half hectares (below five acres) and no member of the family should be an employee or by profession a doctor, engineer, charted accountants or pensioner,” said B Narasimha Rao, District Agriculture Officer, while addressing a meeting of farmers at panchayat office on Thursday. They were informed that the farmers would be offered a total financial assistance of Rs. 6,000 in three phases.

The State Government has already dispatched a list of eligible farmers under five acres with Aadhaar and Pattadar passbook number with the extent of land they have.