Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has launched the PM Kisan Mobile App with face authentication feature. Through this App, remote farmers can do e-KYC by scanning their faces without OTP or fingerprint.
Speaking on this occasion, Tomar said that PM-Kisan is an innovative scheme whose benefits are being given by the central government to farmers without any middlemen. He said PM-Kisan is a very comprehensive and ambitious scheme of the Central Government and due to the support of states, the Centre is in a position to pay the instalment to about 8.5 crore farmers after the completion of their KYC. The Minister said it has become possible to give benefits to such a large number of farmers only with the help of technology.
PM Kisan is one of the world's largest DBT schemes in which farmers get Rs 6,000 directly transferred through Aadhaar-linked bank accounts in three instalments in a year. Rs 2.42 lakh crore have been transferred to the accounts of more than 11 crore farmers till date.