PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Statements 1 and 3 are correct. The base cut-off is 01-02-2019, and later acquisition through purchase, gift or partition ordinarily does not create fresh eligibility. However, succession after the recorded landowner's death is specifically treated as an exception, so statement 2 is false.

Each eligible landholding farmer family receives ₹6,000 per year through Direct Benefit Transfer. The amount is divided into three equal four-monthly instalments of ₹2,000, so option B gives both the correct annual total and instalment structure.

Both statements are correct. At first, coverage was confined to small and marginal farmer families whose combined landholding was up to 2 hectares. With effect from 01-06-2019, the scheme covered all otherwise eligible landholding farmer families without a holding-size ceiling.

For this benefit, a landholding farmer family comprises the husband, wife and minor children who own cultivable land according to the concerned State or Union Territory land records. The ₹6,000 benefit is attached to this family unit, not separately to every member or tenant.

Option D is incorrect. Although serving or retired government employees are generally excluded, Group D, Class IV and Multi-Tasking Staff are expressly excepted from that employment-based exclusion. Institutional landholders, recent income-tax payers and the listed practising professionals are excluded.