Millions of farming families across India just got a five-year guarantee — and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai wants every farmer in his agriculture-dominant state to know it. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme from 2026-27 through 2030-31, backed by a financial outlay of ₹3.15 lakh crore — one of the largest committed tranches of direct farm-income support in the country's history.

What the Cabinet cleared — and what it means for farmers

PM-KISAN, launched in February 2019, delivers ₹6,000 per year in three equal instalments directly into the bank accounts of eligible landholding farmer families — no middlemen, no leakage. The cabinet's decision to extend and fund the scheme through 2030-31 locks in that income floor for crores of households across five more agricultural cycles. CM Sai, welcoming the move on Friday, 31 July 2026, called it 'an important decision in the direction of economic empowerment of crores of farmer families' — annadaataon ki samriddhi se sashakt hoga Viksit Bharat ka sankalp (the resolve of a Developed India will be strengthened by the prosperity of those who feed the nation).

Chhattisgarh's farmers and the PM-KISAN pipeline

Chhattisgarh is one of India's most agriculture-reliant states — rice cultivation dominates its plains, and lakhs of small and marginal families depend on seasonal crop income. CM Sai noted that the state's farming households have been 'continuously benefiting' from PM-KISAN, and the extension ensures that pipeline stays open well into the next decade. The scheme's direct-benefit-transfer architecture means funds reach accounts without state-level diversion — a structural feature that has made it one of the central government's most replicable rural welfare instruments since 2014.

'Samriddh Kisan, Viksit Bharat' — the political arithmetic behind the pledge

The approval fits a recognisable pattern: the Modi government has periodically renewed and expanded direct-benefit schemes for farmers alongside complementary measures — crop insurance under PM Fasal Bima Yojana, minimum support price revisions, and soil health cards — building an interlocking floor of rural income support. The ₹3.15 lakh crore outlay signals that the political economy of farm welfare remains central to the ruling coalition's agenda heading into the next electoral cycle. CM Sai's public gratitude to PM Modi — hriday se aabhaar (heartfelt thanks) — underscores how state BJP leadership is framing the decision: not as a routine renewal, but as a reaffirmation of the 'Samriddh Kisan–Viksit Bharat' (Prosperous Farmer–Developed India) compact.

For the farmer standing at the edge of a paddy field in Raipur or Bilaspur, the math is simple: six thousand rupees a year, guaranteed until 2031. That certainty, multiplied across crores of households, is the real headline.