UP tops PM Kisan scheme with total payout of more than Rs 10,000 crore

UP beneficiary count expected to hit 29 million post 2021 Census

Uttar Pradesh has topped the Centre’s flagship PM Kisan scheme with total payout of more than Rs 10,000 crore to the beneficiary farmers.

Since, nearly Rs 36,000 crore have so far been transferred to farmers’ bank accounts pan India under the scheme, the payment of Rs 10,000 crore in UP accounts for nearly 28 per cent of disbursal.

Addressing a news conference here this afternoon, UP agriculture minister Surya Pratap Shahi said the total number of state beneficiaries under PM Kisan is likely to touch 29 million after the 2021 Census from the current estimated count of 23.3 million farmers.

“So far, the