India’s PM Modi launches 17th Installment in PM-KISAN scheme

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. He took part in an event where he released the 17th installment amounting to more than 2.5 Billion dollars to around 9.26 crore beneficiary farmers under the PM-KISAN scheme which is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from Government of India.

So far, more than 11 crore eligible farmer families have received benefits of more than 37 billion dollars under PM-KISAN. After being sworn in as Prime Minister for the 3rd time, Modi signed his first file authorizing release of 17th installment of PM-KISAN reflecting the commitment of the government towards farmer welfare.