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PM Kisan Yojana Latest Updates: From the time of the launch of the scheme, the Central government has disbursed more than Rs 2.42 lakh crore to eligible farmers.
PM Kisan Yojana Latest Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday released the 15th instalment amount of about Rs 18,000 crore under PM-KISAN Yojana. Notably, PM Kisan is a cash-transfer scheme for poor farmers. During the event in Jharkhand, PM Modi disbursed Rs 18,000 crore to 80 million farmers through direct benefit transfer. In the previous 14th instalment, nearly 80.5 million farmers had received Rs 17,000 crore in their bank accounts in July.
In the 13th instalment in February, PM Modi had disbursed Rs 16,800 crore to nearly 80 million farmers at Karnataka’s Belagavi. The 11th and 12th instalments under the PM-KISAN scheme were also released in May and October 2022.