CM Mohan Yadav shares live release of PM-Kisan 24th instalment
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Crores of farming families across India tuned in on Friday, October 30, 2026, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 24th instalment of the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi — and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav made sure farmers in his state had a front-row seat, sharing the live broadcast directly from his official X account.
Dr. Yadav's post, in Hindi, reads: 'LIVE: aadaraneeya Pradhanmantri Shri @narendramodi ji jaaree karenge PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi ki 24veen kist' — 'LIVE: Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will release the 24th instalment of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi.' The link directed followers to a live broadcast of the event.
What PM-Kisan means for India's farmers
Launched nationwide in February 2019 — with the first disbursement covering the period from December 2018 — the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi delivers Rs 6,000 per year directly into the bank accounts of eligible landholding farmer families, paid in three equal instalments of Rs 2,000 each. The scheme is one of the largest direct-benefit-transfer programmes in Indian agriculture.
The design is intentionally simple: no middlemen, no state-level variation in the core amount, and a direct pipeline from the central government treasury to the farmer's account. Each new instalment release is therefore a live demonstration of that architecture working at scale.
Madhya Pradesh's stake in every disbursement
Madhya Pradesh — one of India's major agricultural states — carries a substantial share of small and marginal farmers on the scheme's rolls. The state's farming economy, heavily dependent on rabi and kharif cycles, means each PM-Kisan instalment arrives at a moment when liquidity matters: ahead of input purchases, loan repayments, or the lean inter-season period.
By amplifying the Centre's live event, CM Dr. Yadav signalled both institutional alignment with the flagship welfare programme and a direct message to the state's rural constituency that the transfer is happening now, in real time.
Seven years after its launch, PM-Kisan has completed nearly two dozen disbursement cycles — each one a stress-test of India's direct-benefit-transfer infrastructure, and each one watched closely by policymakers and farm-sector analysts for any hint of revision to eligibility criteria or the base amount. The 24th instalment marks another milestone in that unbroken chain.