Mukhyamantri Krishak Samman Nidhi (MKSN) Scheme Launched in West Bengal

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

NABANNA

325, Sarat Chatterjee Road, Howrah -711 102

No. – 1128 -AG/O/9M(Nab)-56/2026 Howrah, Dated 29/10/2026

NOTIFICATION

The Governor is hereby pleased to introduce a scheme "Mukhyamantri Krishak Samman Nidhi (MKSN)" comprising two components for providing financial assistance to eligible farming families to support agricultural activities, improve farm productivity, and strengthen their financial security subject to the following provisions.

Component-1

1. Eligibility for Enrolment

Farm families residing in West Bengal and owning cultivable land within the State shall be eligible for consideration under the scheme component, subject to fulfillment of the prescribed eligibility criteria and exclusions. Eligible categories include landholding farmers, registered bargadars, patta holders, and registered sharecroppers having land RoRs as applicable under the scheme guidelines.

2. Financial Assistance

Eligible beneficiaries shall receive annual financial assistance based on their cultivable landholding:

• ₹6,000 per annum for eligible farmers having 40 decimals or more of cultivable land.
• ₹4,000 per annum for eligible farmers having less than 40 decimals of cultivable land.

The assistance shall be disbursed in two equal instalments once during Kharif season (June-September) and the second during Rabi season (December-March) through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), subject to successful verification and approval.

3. Documents Required

Applicants seeking fresh enrolment shall submit the prescribed application form along with the following documents and details:

1. All farmers owning cultivable land. Valid Record of Rights (RoR) in the applicant's name, or applicable land-record proof of recorded sharecropping/bargadar/Bhagchasi/Patta holders. The land records must reflect ownership through a duly mutated RoR.
2. Valid Voter Identity Card (EPIC).
3. Aadhaar details.
4. Bank passbook's first page showing the account holder's name, account number, and IFSC.
5. Valid Aadhaar-linked bank account maintained at a bank branch within West Bengal and enabled for DBT. No two beneficiaries shall be permitted to receive benefits in the same bank account.
6. Valid mobile number linked with the beneficiary's bank account.
7. Other declarations and documents prescribed under the scheme guidelines.

All those applied for CAA are eligible to be valid till not deleted by the adjudication by the competent authority.

4. Enrolment Procedure

a. Existing beneficiaries under the Krishak Bandhu (Natun) Scheme shall be considered for automatic enrolment, subject to successful validation and verification of eligibility and bank account details as per Agriculture Department Order no. No.617-AG/O/9M(NAB)-35/2026 dated 03.07.2026. Such beneficiaries shall not be required to submit a fresh application where automatic enrolment applies.

b. Eligible farmers not already enrolled under Krishak Bandhu (Natun), and who are not beneficiaries of PM-KISAN, shall submit their applications in the prescribed format to the office of the Assistant Director of Agriculture (ADA) of the concerned Block.

c. The Block-level Agriculture Office shall scrutinize the applications and supporting documents and undertake the prescribed verification through the designated ICT-enabled system.

d. Applications found eligible shall be forwarded electronically to the District-level authority for further scrutiny and approval, followed by final scrutiny and validation at the State level (SNO-State Nodal Officer).

e. Enrolment shall be considered complete upon successful validation of the beneficiary's Aadhaar-linked bank account through the prescribed process and generation of a Unique Beneficiary Identification Number (UBIN)/Unique Scheme ID, subject to fulfilment of all applicable conditions.

5. Exclusion Criteria

All Institutional land holders, "PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi" beneficiaries and farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to following categories shall be excluded from this scheme:

High-income earners and professionals like Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, and Architects registered with Professional bodies and carrying out profession by undertaking practices, taxpayers, pensioners, constitutional/ government employees (excluding Group D/MTS/Class IV), NRIs, and those failing to submit valid Aadhaar information.

Beneficiaries identified as dead, shifted, deleted and absentee electors identified during SIR 2026, deletion in the 2nd list after publication of draft list, deleted after adjudication, ASDD found during voter slip distribution shall be excluded.

6. Concept of Farm Family:

A landholder farmer's family is defined as "a family comprising of husband, wife and minor children" who own cultivable land as per land records of West Bengal. The existing land-ownership system will be used for identification of beneficiaries for calculation of benefit. Only one member from farming family is eligible for assistance under the said scheme.

7. Cut-off date of land possession:

Cut-off date of land possession may be treated as 1st July 2026 and no changes thereafter shall be considered for eligibility of benefit under the scheme for next 5 years. But the following cases may be considered.

i. Transfer of ownership due to inheritance resulting out of death of the land owner. In such cases the family of the successors would be entitled to the benefits, if otherwise eligible as per scheme guidelines.

ii. In cases of cultivable land transferred to other persons through Sale Deed, Partition Deed, Gift Deed, etc., the transferee will not be eligible under the Scheme as he / she was not the land owner as on 01.07.2026. However, in such cases even the transferor of the land will become ineligible if the family of the transferor does not have any cultivable land subsequent to such transfer.

8. Monitoring:

This scheme component will be supervised by a State-Level Steering Committee headed by the Chief Secretary, alongside District and Block level committees.

Component-2: Top-Up PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi scheme in West Bengal

All beneficiaries enrolled under Centrally Sponsored Scheme "PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi" will be provided additional Rs. ₹3,000/year in three equal installments @ ₹1000/- per installment, paid every four months. So, beneficiaries in West Bengal will get ₹9,000/year total from both schemes — ₹6000 from Centre + ₹3000 from State under this scheme component.

Eligible criteria, Exclusion Criteria, Enrollment Process and other related activity/procedure of this scheme component is identical to the Centrally Sponsored Scheme "PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi" guideline and any changes thereof.

Extant of Operation: This scheme will be enforced throughout the State of West Bengal.

This is being issued with the approval of the Finance Department vide UO NO. Group A-I/2026-2027/0023, dated 23.07.2026 and UO. No. Group A-I/2026-2027/0049 dated 25/09/2026 and has cabinet approval vide No. 309 dated 21/10/2026.

By order of the Governor

Secretary
to the Govt. of West Bengal