Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare of the Republic of India

12/01/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/01/2021 06:14

Coverage of PMKSY-PDMC

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

Coverage of PMKSY-PDMC

Posted On: 01 DEC 2021 5:37PM by PIB Delhi

The Per Drop More Crop component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY-PDMC) scheme is operational in the country from 2015-16 which focuses on enhancing water use efficiency at farm level through Micro Irrigation (MI). Total area of 59.37 lakh ha has been covered under Micro Irrigation in the country under PMKSY-PDMC from 2015-16 to till date.

During the last three years, Central assistance of Rs. 8141.96 crore was released to States and an area of 32.68 lakh ha covered under Micro Irrigation through the scheme.

The PMKSY- PDMC is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and the funds under the scheme is shared between Central Government and State Government in the ratio of 60:40 for all States except the North Eastern and Himalayan states wherein sharing pattern is 90:10. In case of Union Territories, funding pattern is 100% grant by the Central Government. The Central Assistance to States under the scheme is provided based on their Annual Action Plan approved by the State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary. Besides, Operational Guidelines of the scheme has been issued to support the States and farmers on various aspects for effective implementation of the scheme.

With the objective of facilitating the States in mobilising resources for expanding coverage of micro irrigation, a Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) with corpus of Rs. 5000 crore was created with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) during 2018-19. The States are encouraged to access MIF for innovative projects / additional incentive to farmers for installation of Micro Irrigation systems by interest subvention of 3% than the cost of funds mobilized by NABRAD from the market. So far, projects with loans under MIF amounting to Rs. 3970.17 Crore have been approved for 12.81 lakh ha of Micro Irrigation area.

To continue the efforts, during the current year, a Budget Announcement was made to double the initial corpus of MIF from Rs. 5,000 crores to Rs. 10,000 crore.

Central Assistance released and area covered under Micro Irrigation under PMKSY- PDMC during last three years

S. No.

State

Central Assistance released

(Rs. in Crore)

Area covered under Micro Irrigation (Ha)

1

Andhra Pradesh

1072.00

322349

2

Bihar

27.91

6166

3

Chhattisgarh

120.54

65251

4

Goa

1.70

417

5

Gujarat

825.50

349756

6

Haryana

142.21

45567

7

Himachal Pra.

64.00

5046

8

Jharkhand

74.97

11876

9

J&K

44.80

1090

10

Karnataka

1182.03

806622

11

Kerala

9.00

1937

12

Madhya Pradesh

359.56

67509

13

Maharashtra

985.00

380934

14

Odisha

115.00

32171

15

Punjab

9.00

2191

16

Rajasthan

443.48

181746

17

Tamil Nadu

1278.00

650086

18

Telangana

122.00

56237

19

Uttarakhand

125.00

15174.41

20

Uttar Pradesh

387.88

170143

21

West Bengal

121.00

50015

22

Arun. Pradesh

55.50

6898

23

Assam

72.00

17674

24

Manipur

107.50

8609

25

Meghalaya

27.00

-

26

Mizoram

80.80

2867

27

Nagaland

118.00

4350

28

Sikkim

121.98

5524

29

Tripura

46.20

-

30

Ladakh

2.40

-

Grand Total

8141.96

3268205

This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha.

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