PM-KISAN’s 24th instalment sent ₹18,690 crore to farmers
PM-KISAN’s 24th instalment transferred over ₹18,690 crore to 9.34 crore farmers, taking reported cumulative disbursements above ₹4.64 lakh crore.
The government reported that more than ₹18,690 crore was transferred to 9.34 crore farmers through PM-KISAN’s 24th instalment, in a Press Information Bureau note published on 30 October 2026. The same note put cumulative disbursements under the programme at more than ₹4.64 lakh crore.
These figures show the reported scale of the latest payment and the programme’s cumulative transfers. They do not establish how much each household spends the support on, whether it meets farm costs or how the payment affects farmers’ incomes. Those questions require additional evidence beyond the transfer figures.
What the data shows
The 24th instalment represents the latest payment described in the supplied official note. The government reported a transfer of more than ₹18,690 crore to 9.34 crore farmers. Separately, cumulative disbursements under PM-KISAN had crossed ₹4.64 lakh crore.
The latest instalment and the cumulative total measure different periods. The instalment figure refers to one payment round, while cumulative disbursements represent transfers over the programme’s history as reported by the government. They should not be read as two payments made at the same time.
The programme’s standard support is ₹6,000 per eligible farmer family each year, paid in three instalments of ₹2,000. This structure helps explain the relationship between the per-instalment amount and the annual support amount, but the supplied figures do not provide a breakdown of the latest transfer by state, landholding, farm type or other household characteristics.
How the payment structure works
- Annual support: ₹6,000 per eligible farmer family.
- Payment frequency: Three instalments each year.
- Standard instalment: ₹2,000 per eligible farmer family.
- Latest reported reach: 9.34 crore farmers through the 24th instalment.
- Latest reported transfer: More than ₹18,690 crore.
The government note also states that continuation of the programme was approved through 2030–31, with an outlay of ₹3.15 lakh crore. An approved outlay is a planned allocation for the stated period; it is not the same as money already transferred to farmers. The supplied information does not provide a year-by-year schedule of future payments or actual expenditure against that outlay.
The figures describe the scale of the programme in financial and beneficiary terms. They do not tell us whether every eligible household received the payment on time, whether any eligible families were excluded, or whether the amount was sufficient for the costs faced by different farmers.
What the numbers don’t tell us
The supplied figures are programme-level totals. They do not include the number of eligible farmer families, the share of eligible families that received the latest instalment, or a list of payment failures and pending cases. Without those details, the reported reach cannot be interpreted as a coverage rate for all eligible farmers.
The data also does not provide a distribution of payments by state, gender, farm size or income. It cannot show how the support was used or measure its effect on agricultural production, household debt or farm income. Those outcomes would require separate data and an appropriate comparison.
The cumulative disbursement figure is reported as more than ₹4.64 lakh crore. It should be retained as a lower-bound description rather than converted into a falsely precise total. Similarly, the latest transfer is reported as more than ₹18,690 crore, not as an exact final amount.
The bottom line
PM-KISAN’s latest reported instalment demonstrates the scale of the programme’s direct transfers, while the cumulative total shows the broader volume of payments reported to date. To judge how effectively the scheme supports farming households, the next step is to examine eligibility, payment delivery and household-level outcomes alongside the transfer totals.
