PM-KISAN 24th instalment of ₹2,000 released to 9.34 crore farmers; how to check if you got it

The Centre released the 24th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) on Friday at an event in Banaskantha, Gujarat. About ₹18,690 crore was sent directly to the bank accounts of more than 9.34 crore farmers, according to a government backgrounder issued the same afternoon.

Each eligible farmer family receives ₹2,000 per instalment. By our calculation, ₹18,690 crore spread across 9.34 crore farmers works out to just over ₹2,000 each, consistent with the scheme's fixed payment.

The scheme in numbers

According to the backgrounder:

Eligible farmer families get ₹6,000 a year, paid in three instalments of ₹2,000.
Total payouts across all 24 instalments now exceed ₹4.64 lakh crore.
The Union Cabinet approved continuing the scheme from 2026-27 to 2030-31 in July 2026, with an outlay of ₹3.15 lakh crore for those five years.
The Union Budget for 2026-27 set aside ₹60,000 crore for PM-KISAN.
As of December 2025, ₹416.75 crore had been recovered from people found to be ineligible.
In 2024-25, the PM-KISAN portal recorded 24,605 grievances.

By our calculation, three instalments to about 9.3 crore farmers would cost roughly ₹56,000 crore a year, which fits within this year's ₹60,000 crore allocation.

How to check whether the money reached you

Farmers can check their payment status on the official PM-KISAN website or the PM-KISAN mobile app:

Go to pmkisan.gov.in and open the "Know Your Status" option under the farmers' section.
Enter your registration number. If you do not have it, there is an option to find it using your mobile number or Aadhaar number.
Enter the captcha and the OTP sent to your registered mobile.
The page shows each instalment and whether it was paid, along with any reason a payment is on hold.

Farmers can also check the village-wise list of beneficiaries on the portal. The government says these lists are displayed publicly so that people who have been left out can ask to be included.

Why a payment may not arrive

The backgrounder sets out three conditions for receiving money. If any one is incomplete, the instalment can be held back:

Land records must be verified and seeded on the PM-KISAN portal by the state government.
The bank account must be linked to Aadhaar.
e-KYC must be complete.

e-KYC can be done in three ways: an OTP sent to the Aadhaar-linked mobile, a fingerprint scan at a Common Service Centre, or face authentication through the PM-KISAN app. The face option was added to the app in 2023 and lets farmers complete e-KYC with a phone camera, without an OTP or fingerprint.

Farmers who have completed all three steps and still have not been paid can register a complaint on the PM-KISAN portal or on the government's central grievance system, CPGRAMS.

Help in local languages

The government's AI chatbot Kisan-eMitra, introduced in September 2023, answers questions on payments, registration and eligibility. According to the backgrounder, it works by voice and text in 11 languages: Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada.

Who is not eligible

The scheme is meant for landholding farmer families. The backgrounder says states recover money paid to ineligible people, including income tax payers, government employees, public sector employees and holders of constitutional posts. Anyone in these groups who has received instalments may be asked to return them.

How the money travels

The path from approval to a farmer's account runs through several systems. States verify eligibility and upload beneficiary details. The portal checks Aadhaar and bank details. The data then goes to the Public Financial Management System (PFMS), the Department of Agriculture issues a sanction order, and payments are routed through sponsor banks and the National Payments Corporation of India before landing in farmers' accounts. The NPCI is the same body that runs UPI; our explainer on how UPI works describes its role in more detail.

PM-KISAN was launched on 24 February 2019. With roughly four months between instalments, the next payment would typically fall due in early 2027, though the government has not announced a date.

Correction, 31 October 2026: An earlier version of this story said the instalment was released on Thursday. It was released on Friday, 30 October 2026.