Overview
- The government has not announced a national release date, with reports indicating the 21st tranche is likely in early November after the 20th was paid on August 2.
- A database clean-up has identified large numbers of ineligible or duplicate beneficiaries, and districts have begun recovering wrongly credited amounts.
- The Agriculture Ministry says the objective is to ensure benefits reach eligible farmers rather than to punish those affected by data errors.
- e-KYC is mandatory and can be completed via OTP on the portal or biometric and facial authentication at Common Service Centres, which helps prevent drops from the beneficiary list.
- Farmers are advised to verify Aadhaar–bank linking, correct record mismatches, check status and point of contact on pmkisan.gov.in, and use the online refund facility if they receive recovery notices; an advance Rs 171 crore was already released on October 7 to 8.55 lakh farmers in Jammu and Kashmir.