PM Kisan Mobile App with Face Authentication Feature
Recently, the Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister has launched the PM-Kisan mobile app with face authentication feature under “Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi”.
PM-Kisan Mobile of face authentication feature
- Using the face authentication feature from this app, the farmer can easily complete e-KYC by scanning the face without OTP or fingerprint even sitting at a remote home, and can also help 100 other farmers to do e-KYC at their doorstep.
- Now the difficulties related to Aadhaar verification and bank account details updation on PM Kisan Portal have been resolved by effective use of digital public goods.
- Realizing the need to complete e-KYC compulsorily, the Government of India has empowered the officers of the State Governments to do e-KYC of the farmers, so that each officer can complete the e-KYC process for 500 farmers.
PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi
- PM-Kisan is a Central Sector Scheme which was launched on February 24, 2019 to meet the financial needs of land holding farmers.
- PM Kisan is one of the world’s largest DBT schemes in which Rs 6,000 per annum is directly transferred to farmers in Aadhaar linked bank accounts in three installments.
- By amending this scheme in the year 2019, all landholder farmers (irrespective of the amount of land they have) were considered as beneficiaries of this scheme.
Source – PIB
