Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) Extended Upto 2026 New Update for Farmers

Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas Sabka Vishwas Sabka Prayas

The total land area of India is about 329 Million Hectares. Out of this area, Indian people are doing agriculture in a Net sown area of about 141 Million Hectares. As significant crops which are going in the field require water for their growth. The process of providing water to agricultural land is called Irrigation. Our Indian Government launched this scheme to provide the proper facilities for irrigation to the farmers so that our crop-producing stamina can increase.

The word Sinchai means irrigation and Krishi means agriculture so Krishi Sinchai means irrigation to agriculture. So this scheme is very old but now our honourable prime minister of India Mr Narendra Modi has extended this scheme till 2026 now let’s discuss this scheme in complete detail and why it gets extended.

Brief Description of the Project

Name of Scheme	Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY)
Scheme Benefits	All students can easily access quality secondary education.
Objective	Improvement of Secondary education.

Table of Contents

1. Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) meaning and launch date
2. Reasons for launching Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY)
3. The objective of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana
4. Eligibility Criteria to Avail This Scheme
5. Documents required to avail of this scheme
6. How to apply for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
7. Schemes that merge under this scheme
8. Implementation of the scheme
9. Component of this scheme
10. Fund Allocation Process
11. Achievement of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of 2021-22
12. Extra Information regarding this scheme
13. Conclusion

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) meaning and launch date

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana in the short form you can say PMKSY is an initiative by the Indian government to make available the irrigation facility across the rainfed cultivated land regions as fast as possible just like the government launched the Krishi Vikas Yojana. This scheme was launched in 2006 by the central government as a step to achieve micro irrigation facilities but the scheme motto and its component stat extending and this scheme is still active and now it become the national mission for states. As still, majority population of India is still doing agriculture so having proper irrigation facilities is very necessary.

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) 2023 Key Highlights

Portal	Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY)
Launched by	Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture
Process	Offline
Year	2006
Objective	Proper irrigation for every agricultural land.
Benefits	Crop yield will increase, reducing the risk of crop waste.
Beneficiary	All farmers get a proper water supply for their crops.
Official Website	Click Here

Reasons for launching Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY)

1. Rainfall Dependency

One of the major reasons for launching this scheme is that out of 141 Million hectares of agricultural land only 45% have a proper irrigation system while 55% of the land is still dependent on rainfall which is the worst thing.

2. Low Yield

As the major agricultural land is still dependent on the rainfall so if the rainfall does not occur or if the rainfall no occurs in the proper amount then the crop will either not grow or it will grow in very fewer amounts which creates a problem in the food stock.

3. High Risk

There is a very high risk of growing crops when it will not get the proper water supply and also the fertility of the land will decrease when the field is continuously used but proper water is not provided to it.

4. To combine all the schemes

As many schemes have the same moto to provide the irrigation facility to the farmers and due to a lot of time, effort, and only was getting wasted so to reduce all of these things Indian government launched one scheme and named it Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana.

Taking these reasons into mind government of India decided to launch this scheme.

The objective of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana

1. One of the main objectives of the scheme is to increase the cultivated area under irrigation in India.
2. To increase the on-farm water use efficiency so that with the minimum supply of irrigation we get high and good quality yield rather than providing excess and useless water to the land.
3. Micro irrigation should be provided and taught to the farmers, including dip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation.
4. To reduce the wastage of water so that the ground table of water should remain balanced.
5. To use the methods of rainwater harvesting at the ground level so that rainwater will also not get wast and should be used for next time when the next crop will require it. Jal Sinchai and Jal Sinchan are the two popular words used for this.
6. To encourage the farmers regarding the micro-technique of irrigation by providing the subsidy by the government. As there is one component of this scheme also which says “Per Drop More Crop”.
7. Recharge the aqua-verse so that all water should be used properly.
8. All water running in the pipes and directly thrown to the canals by the houses should have retreated for its clarity and pure water must be used for irrigation. Hence, municipalities should take this responsibility and support the government scheme Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY).

Eligibility Criteria to Avail This Scheme

As the scheme fund is eligible to the states and union territories so the eligibility criteria are regulated on the states and union territories, not on the farmers.

1. States will benefit from funds under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana if it has prepared for the State and District irrigation plans and water resource development for agriculture sector expenditure should be less than baseline expenditure.
2. Under the scheme, states will also have proper water supply and electricity so that the programme remains.

Documents required to avail of this scheme

As to get the benefit of any scheme certain documents are required to full fill out the form. The documents needed for PMKSY are given below:-

1. Farmers Aadhar card
2. Address proof
3. House certificate
4. Agricultural land papers
5. Bank account passbook
6. Mobile number
7. Passport size photograph
8. Domicile certificate of state
9. Caste certificate

How to apply for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana

There are very simple steps with which you can apply for this scheme and these steps are discussed below:-

1. Go to the official website of PMKSY which is https://pmksy.gov.in/.
2. Click on the login section of the homepage of the website.
3. Give the user ID and password during login.
4. Now provide all the necessary documents which it is asking for.
5. After giving all the necessary information click on submit.
6. Now you can download the form of your application for any future reference.

Schemes that merge under this scheme

Many schemes were running before the launching of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana

1. AIBP (Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program)

This scheme was launched by the Central government in 1996-97 under which major and medium irrigation projects which didn’t complete due to any reason must restart and accelerate the process so that soon their accomplishment can happen. This scheme was headed by the Ministry of Water Resources, Water Development & Ganga Rejuvenation which is today known as the Ministry of Jalsakti. When Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) was launched then AIBP was merged with PMKSY.

Before merging into PMKSY, AIBP total had 297 projects to be completed and out of which, they completed 143 irrigation projects.

2. IWMP (Integrated Watershed Management Programme)

It was launched in 2009-10. This program is the world’s second-largest watershed program after china. Its main target is to accomplish a 55 Million hectare area of irrigation by 2027. There are many objectives of this programme which include preventing soil erosion, increasing the groundwater table, promoting rainwater harvesting, etc. But finally, this program also gets merged with Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana.

3. OFWM (On Farm Water Management)

This scheme was launched in January 2006. It was a centrally sponsored scheme headed by the Department of Agriculture and Corporation. Then in June 2010 this program was scaled up and renamed National Mission Micro Irrigation. In 2014 it merged with National Mission with Sustainability Agriculture. Later on, when PMKSY was launched it gets merged with that.

Implementation of the scheme

In major, the scheme central government just managed the fund for the scheme while the state government do all the implementation of the scheme and bring forward the result. As this scheme is also sponsored by the Central government and it gets decentralised implementation through State Irrigation Plan and District Irrigation Plan.

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Component of this scheme

1. AIBP (Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program)

• It aims for financial support to irrigation projects
• The inclusion criteria have been relaxed for projects in tribal and drought-prone areas.

2. Har Khet Ko Pani (HKKP)

The main aim of this component is to enhance the physical access on the farm and the expansion of the cultivable area under assured irrigation.

3. Per Drop More Crop Micro Irrigation

It is one of the best components of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana as its name says very much which says that every dopy of water should be used to grow more and more crops and not a single whole waste while irrigation the land.

5. Watershed

It is mainly specific for the development of the spring sheds and also it focuses on the rainfed areas towards soil and water conservation.

6. Convergence with MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005)

Fund Allocation Process

As the scheme is centrally sponsored so there is a certain ratio decided by the government about the fund given. Some part of the fund is given by Central Government while the remaining part it must be given by State Government.

1. For North East, the ratio is 90:10

In North-Eastern states, the fund needed is 90% must be given by the Central Government while the remaining 10% is given by that state government.

2. For the Rest of the area, the ratio is 75:25

For the other states which are not in the north-east part, their fund id 75% is given by the central government while the remaining 25% must be given by the government of that state.

Achievement of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of 2021-22

State	Area Covered in (Ha)
JAMMU AND KASHMIR	14.1
PUNJAB	3,719.00
UTTARAKHAND	3,699.64
HARYANA	43,044.63
RAJASTHAN	78,231.98
UTTAR PRADESH	33,931.00
BIHAR	2,086.72
SIKKIM	2,914.00
ARUNACHAL PRADESH	3,009.00
NAGALAND	5,518.00
MANIPUR	2,894.00
MIZORAM	427.43
TRIPURA	3,413.00
ASSAM	12,848.80
WEST BENGAL	14,364.75
JHARKHAND	4,868.06
ODISHA	30,331.13
CHHATTISGARH	18,639.80
MADHYA PRADESH	69,890.48
GUJARAT	78,790.00
MAHARASHTRA	1,13,479.07
ANDHRA PRADESH	14,654.00
KARNATAKA	3,36,052.87
KERALA	385.06
TAMIL NADU	1,02,328.67
TELANGANA	35,538.40
Year-wise Total 2022-22:	10,15,073.59

Extra Information regarding this scheme

• PMKSY is extended till 2026 as all the objectives of this scheme have not been completed till now.
• More than 22 lakh farmers have got the benefit from this scheme.
• In 2020 Ministry of Jal-Sakti launched the app named “Geo Tagging“
• Its official website is https://pmksy.gov.in/.
• The government decided on an outlay of 50,000 crores in five years.
• With the period extension of this scheme, this component also got extended till 2025-26.

Conclusion

I hope after Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana you will get a lot to know about this scheme as we have described this scheme in detail regarding the application process also. The numerical data of this scheme is taken from the official; government website to give you the details in the deep. I hope all of your queries get solved but if you still have any doubts regarding Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY) then please let us know in the comment box because your question is very precious for USS and it also helps the next coming reader.