How to apply for PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi

PM-KISAN pays ₹6,000 a year in three ₹2,000 instalments to a landholding farmer family. Registration is on pmkisan.gov.in. The two usual blockers are pending eKYC and land that is not seeded to your name.

PM-KISAN is a Central Sector scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It has been operational from 1 December 2018. The government pays ₹6,000 per year in three equal instalments of ₹2,000 by DBT into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account.

Family on the scheme page means husband, wife, and minor children. That unit gets one benefit, not one benefit per adult.

Money stops for two reasons more often than any other:

1. eKYC is not done. The portal, the PM-KISAN app, and CSC logins all treat eKYC as mandatory. OTP on an Aadhaar-linked mobile is one route. Biometric eKYC is available at CSC VLE logins, the mobile app, and state authorised user logins.
2. Land is not seeded to your name. The central PM-KISAN database must match the state revenue record: khasra, khatauni, 7/12, pahani, patta, or jamabandi, as your state names it. If the old khata still shows a parent or a joint holder the portal does not expect, the instalment is held.

Fix those two before you assume the scheme has “missed the 18th installment”. Always read the latest instalment on the portal. This page does not treat any instalment number as current.

A deeper apply walk-through also lives at apply PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi 2026. Status steps: PM-KISAN status check 2026.

New farmers use Farmers Corner → New Farmer Registration on pmkisan.gov.in. The live form is Aadhaar-authenticated. Self-registration is the government route. A CSC can type the same form if you do not have a smartphone.

Verb-led steps

1. Open https://pmkisan.gov.in.
2. Choose New Farmer Registration.
3. Authenticate with Aadhaar OTP on the mobile linked to Aadhaar.
4. Select state, district, and village.
5. Enter name as on Aadhaar, bank account, and land details: survey / khasra number and area as on the revenue extract.
6. Submit. Note the registration / farmer ID the portal shows.
7. Complete eKYC the same day if the menu offers it.
8. Ask the patwari or tehsil revenue staff to seed the land if self-entry fails a land match.

If self-registration returns a land mismatch, stop retrying the same wrong survey number. Take the paper 7/12, khatauni, or patta to the revenue counter and let them push the seeded record.

You also need Aadhaar with a working mobile for OTP. If the Aadhaar mobile is dead, use biometric or face eKYC instead of waiting on SMS.

The scheme page lists higher economic status exclusions. In short, PM-KISAN is for landholding farmer families who are not in those groups. The official list includes:

• All institutional land holders.
• Former and present holders of constitutional posts.
• Former and present ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, mayors of municipal corporations, and chairpersons of district panchayats.
• Serving or retired officers and employees of central or state government, PSEs, attached offices, autonomous institutions, and regular employees of local bodies, excluding Multi Tasking Staff / Class IV / Group D.
• Superannuated pensioners whose monthly pension is at or above the threshold printed on the scheme page, with the same Group D / MTS exclusion.
• Persons who paid income tax in the last assessment year.
• Professionals such as doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants, and architects registered with professional bodies and in practice.

Tenant farmers and cultivators whose name is not on the land record are not the target group. Mutation in your name comes first. See property mutation if the record still shows a deceased holder.

The portal currently flags some cases for physical verification, including examples on the homepage such as land acquired after 1 February 2019, or more than one family member drawing the benefit. Check Know Your Status rather than assuming a permanent ban.

If you are not eligible, do not register. Wrong claims are recovered.

Do not wait for a neighbour's SMS about an “18th installment”. Open the portal.

1. Go to pmkisan.gov.in.
2. Open Know Your Status / Beneficiary Status (Farmers Corner).
3. Enter Aadhaar, mobile, or registration number as the form allows.
4. Read eKYC, land seeding, bank, and each instalment row.
5. Treat the latest instalment shown there as the current picture.

Direct status URL used on the live site: BeneficiaryStatus_New.aspx. Self-registered / CSC farmer status has its own Farmers Corner link.

If status is Active and eKYC is done but money is missing, the next place is the bank: Aadhaar seeding and the destination account. If status is Inactive or land seeding is No, the next place is the tehsil, not a new online form.

Scheme background: PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi.

A Common Service Centre can file New Farmer Registration, run biometric eKYC, and help you read status. That is useful when OTP never arrives.

Ask the VLE to use the official PM-KISAN / CSC login, not a private “kisan app”. You should see your name on pmkisan.gov.in afterwards. If they only collect photocopies and never generate a farmer ID, they did not register you.

Registration on the government portal is free. If a centre charges for typing or biometric use, take a receipt. You can still do OTP eKYC yourself at home.

The official PM Kisan mobile app is listed from the portal's Farmers Corner. Use it for status and for the eKYC methods the app currently shows.

Land seeding sits with revenue (tehsildar / patwari). Scheme eligibility and instalment flags sit with agriculture (block / district agriculture officer, state nodal officer). File where the status screen points.

Apply under RTI Act 2005 s.6(1). Reply is due in 30 days under s.7(1). First appeal under s.19(1). Draft with the AI RTI Drafter. If the PIO is silent, use the First Appeal Builder. Fee: RTI fees by state.

To
The Public Information Officer
Office of the Tehsildar / Block Agriculture Officer
[Block or Tehsil, District, State]

Subject: Information under s.6(1) of the RTI Act, 2005: PM-KISAN farmer ID [NUMBER]

1. Current beneficiary status of PM-KISAN registration / farmer ID [NUMBER] / Aadhaar last four [XXXX], including eKYC, land seeding, and the latest instalment marked on the portal.
2. For khasra / survey number [NUMBER] in village [NAME]: whether land seeding to my name is complete in the PM-KISAN database, the date of last sync with the state land record, and the mismatch text if any.
3. Reason recorded for non-payment of instalments after [DATE], including any exclusion flag, IT flag, or physical-verification hold.
4. Name and designation of the official responsible for land seeding or for the agriculture approval in the last six months.
5. Copy of file notings from the last successful credit to today, and the expected date of correction if a discrepancy is open.

Please reply within 30 days under s.7(1). Transfer under s.6(3) if another officer holds the record.

Point of contact search exists on the portal (Search your POC). Use it to name the state nodal officer in the RTI if the block office shrugs.

Open pmkisan.gov.in, use New Farmer Registration, authenticate with Aadhaar, enter land and bank details, then finish eKYC. A CSC can file the same form. Land must stand in the family's name.

It is the only official PM-KISAN site for registration, eKYC, beneficiary status, mobile update, and related farmer-corner tools. Do not use lookalike domains.

A mandatory Aadhaar-based KYC. Do it by OTP on the portal or app, or by biometric / face method at a CSC or on the app. Without eKYC, instalments stay held.

Ignore forwarded messages that lock an instalment number. Open beneficiary status and read the latest instalment on the portal. Release dates are announced by the ministry on that site.

Farmers Corner → Know Your Status / Beneficiary Status, or the status URL on pmkisan.gov.in. Enter Aadhaar, mobile, or registration number. See PM-KISAN status check 2026.

Yes. Take Aadhaar, bank passbook, and the land extract. Confirm later that your farmer ID appears on pmkisan.gov.in.

Most often eKYC pending, land not seeded, Aadhaar-bank mismatch, or an exclusion flag. Read the status fields, fix the matching blocker, then RTI if the office does not move.

• Apply PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi 2026
• PM-KISAN status check 2026
• PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi
• How to apply for Aadhaar
• All how-to-apply guides
• AI RTI Drafter
• The RTI Playbook
• RTI Act, 2005

• PM-KISAN portal: https://pmkisan.gov.in
• New farmer registration and beneficiary status links on the same host
• Scheme text on pmkisan.gov.in: ₹6,000 in three instalments; family = husband, wife, minor children; exclusion categories as published
• RTI Act, 2005: s.6(1), s.7(1), s.19(1)

Reviewed for RTI Wiki by Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak.