भूमिपुत्र

हो तपती धूप, या हो बदरी 

पेट भरे वो हर नगरी 

सींचे वो खेत लहू से भी

भले वो प्यासा हो अध्-गगरी 

आभार है भूमिपुत्र का 

आभार है भूमिपुत्र का 

कभी तूफ़ान था मंडराया 

कभी आकाल का संकट छाया 

फसलें भी बेमौत मरी 

पर उसने धैर्य था दिखलाया

संघर्ष है भूमिपुत्र का 

संघर्ष है भूमिपुत्र का 

चाहे ठिठुरे वो जाड़े में

चाहे वो झुलसे धूप  में

दुलार करे वो फ़सलों को 

ममता के हर रूप में

दुलार है भूमिपुत्र का 

दुलार है भूमिपुत्र का 

General Studies for Exams: Pradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)

Points to remember:

1. Scheme to provide direct income support at the rate of Rs. 6,000 per year.
• Amount  to transferred directly into the bank accounts of beneficiary farmers, in three equal installments of Rs. 2,000 each.
• Transfer to be made in Aadhar linked-bank accounts of farmers.
2. Totally Centrally funded Scheme to benefit around 14.5 crore beneficiaries.
3. Launched by Prime Minister in February 2019, in Gorakhpur.
4. All land holding eligible farmer families (subject to the prevalent exclusion criteria) would avail of the benefits under this scheme. It excludes:
• Former or present holders of any constitutional posts;
• Former or Present (Ministers, State Ministers, MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Councils or Assemblies, Mayors of Municipal Corporations and Chairpersons of district panchayat).
• Income Tax payers. 
5. State/UT Governments will be responsible for identification of beneficiaries.

Source

General Studies for Exams: PM Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana (PM-KMY).

Points to remember.

1. Voluntary and contribution based Pension scheme for farmers.
2. Launched by Prime Minister at Ranchi in September 2019.
3. Beneficiaries: all landholding Small and Marginal Farmers (with land holdings are less than 2 hectares of land).
4. A fixed pension of Rs.3,000/- to beneficiaries.
5. Eligibility:  farmers of the age between 18 and 40 years.
6. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) shall be the Pension Fund Manager. 
7.  Farmers to make a monthly contribution of Rs.55 to Rs.200, depending on their age of entry, in the Pension Fund till they reach the retirement- 60 years.The Central Government will also make an equal contribution of the same amount.
8. Beneficiaries of PM-Kisan Scheme can allow their contribution debited from the benefit of that Scheme directly.

Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP).

It was launched in 2009-10 by the integration of various area development programmes of the Department of Land Resources, including the Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP), the Desert Development Programme (DDP) and the Integrated Wastelands Development Programme (IWDP).

• Cost sharing ratio of Central Government: State Government  90 : 10

• 9% of the project cost is earmarked for development of livelihoods for asset-less people

• 10% of the project cost is for productivity enhancement and development of micro-enterprises for small & marginal farmers.

• An average size of project under the IWMP is about 5,000 ha which is cluster of micro-watersheds.

• A portion of institution &capacity building (5% of the total project cost) has been provided to set up institutional mechanism at State, District, Project and Village levels and to build capacities of stakeholders.

• In the IWMP, Gram Panchayat has been effectively involved to perform important function at Village/Watershed level to keep transparency and people’s participations.  

Har Khet ko Pani Prime Minister Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).

PMKSY has been formulated with the vision of extending the coverage of irrigation ‘Har Khet ko pani’ and improving water use efficiency ‘More crop per drop' in a focused manner with end to end solution on source creation, distribution, management, field application and extension activities.

Objective: The major objective of PMKSY is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level, expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water, enhance the adoption of precision-irrigation and other water saving technologies (More crop per drop), enhance recharge of aquifers and introduce sustainable water conservation practices by exploring the feasibility of reusing treated municipal waste water for peri-urban agriculture and attract greater private investment in precision irrigation system.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) in its meeting held in 2015.

PMKSY has been formulated amalgamating ongoing schemes:

1. Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR,RD&GR),
2. Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) of Department of Land Resources (DoLR); and
3. The On Farm Water Management (OFWM) of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC).