More than 8.8 lakh farmers across Uttarakhand are set to receive a direct cash credit today as Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiates the 24th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme from Gujarat, with over ₹161 crore flowing into the bank accounts of the state's cultivators in a single transfer. The Chief Minister's Office of Uttarakhand confirmed the development on Friday, 30 October 2026, quoting Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

What PM-KISAN's 24th instalment means for Uttarakhand's farmers

The statement from CM Dhami, shared by the official CMO account, captures the moment precisely: 'आज गुजरात से आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेन्द्र मोदी जी देशभर के अन्नदाताओं के खातों में प्रधानमंत्री किसान सम्मान निधि योजना की 24वीं किस्त का हस्तांतरण करेंगे' — 'Today, from Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will transfer the 24th instalment of the PM-KISAN scheme into the accounts of farmers across the country.' For Uttarakhand alone, that translates to more than ₹161 crore reaching over 8.8 lakh beneficiaries in one go.

PM-KISAN, launched on 1 December 2018 and operationalised through the first instalment in February 2019, provides eligible landholding farmer families ₹6,000 per year in three equal tranches of ₹2,000 each. The transfers are routed entirely through Direct Benefit Transfer, bypassing intermediaries and landing straight in farmers' bank accounts — a design choice that has become the scheme's signature and its political selling point.

Uttarakhand's small-farmer profile and the scale of today's credit

Uttarakhand's agricultural landscape is dominated by small and marginal holdings tucked across Himalayan valleys and mid-hill terrains, where income supplementation carries outsized significance. The state has consistently maintained an active PM-KISAN beneficiary database, and the CMO has routinely amplified each instalment announcement — a pattern of Centre-state coordination on welfare messaging that has repeated across every release cycle since the scheme's launch.

With the 24th instalment, the cumulative reach of PM-KISAN continues to expand. Each periodic release is also an administrative audit of sorts: beneficiary lists are updated, ineligible entries weeded out, and new farmers verified — meaning the 8.8 lakh figure for Uttarakhand reflects the current, cleaned-up roll rather than an inflated legacy count.

Gujarat as the launch venue and the politics of a national programme

The choice of Gujarat as today's disbursement venue is a logistical and political signal familiar from earlier PM-KISAN events — Prime Ministers have often anchored these high-visibility transfers to state-level programmes or rallies, making a national welfare scheme visible on the ground. The scale of the national outreach today, with crores of farmers across every state receiving simultaneous credits, underlines PM-KISAN's standing as the central government's single largest direct income-support intervention for agriculture.

Watch for: any revision to the per-instalment amount — currently fixed at ₹2,000 — when the next Union Budget is presented, a demand that farmer groups have pressed with increasing urgency as input costs rise.