UP to list beneficiaries by February 22

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh government has fixed a deadline of February 22 for the list of all beneficiary farmers in the state of the PM-Kisan Nidhi Yojna to be uploaded on the central portal of the scheme, with the first such list to made available by February 12 itself. This could fast-track the payment of the first installment of the Rs 6,000 annual benefit to the state which has the highest number of beneficiary farmers in the country, ahead of a key electoral contest in UP.

"This is a most important task which has to be essentially completed in a time-bound manner," says an order issued on Tuesday by UP chief secretary AC Pandey, putting all district magistrates as in-charge of the job who were asked to take out lists of farmers from the state government's two existing online farmer databases on Tuesday itself. These online databases of UP government have lists of farmers as per the computerised land records and under a 'Pardarshi Kisan Seva Yojana' under which farmers are registered under various schemes of UP government. Names of farmers who feature in these lists will be verified through a field survey between February 6 and 11 and have to be uploaded on the PM Kisan Portal. The rest of the farmers whose names do not feature in the online databases will be identified through another survey in all villages between February 12 and 20.