The Government with a view to augment the income of the farm families is implementing a Central Sector Scheme, namely,"Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM Kisan Yojana)". The Scheme is in effect from 01.12.2018. Benefits and Eligibility conditions Of PM Kisan Yojana All land holding eligible farmer families (subject to the prevalent exclusion criteria) are to avail of the benefits under this scheme, as per the recent cabinet decision taken during May 2019. The revised Scheme is expected to cover around 2 crore more farmers, increasing the coverage of PM-KISAN to around 14.5 crore beneficiaries, with an estimated expenditure by Central Government of Rs. 87,217.50 crores for year 2019-20. Earlier, under the scheme, financial benefit has been provided to all Small and Marginal landholder farmer families with total cultivable holding upto 2 hectares with a benefit of Rs.6000 per annum per family payable in three equal installments, every four months. Exclusion Categories The f