Centre Approves Implementation of PMKSY for 2021-26

On 15^th December, 2021, the Union Cabinet approved the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) for 2021-26.

• Launched in 2015, with the motto of "Har Khet Ko Paani", the overreaching vision of PMKSY is to ensure access to some means of protective irrigation to all agricultural farms in the country, to produce ‘per drop more crop’, thus bringing much desired rural prosperity.

Impact/Significance: With the implementation of minor irrigation schemes under PMKSY, irrigation infrastructures have been enhanced and improved greatly. It has led to the overall improvement in agriculture and farmers are encouraged for multiple cropping.