Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is a Government of Chhattisgarh scheme that pays Rs 10,000 a year to families in rural Chhattisgarh who own no agricultural land and live by agricultural labour. Announced in the ruling party's assembly election manifesto and implemented by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana, "दीनदयाल उपाध्याय भूमिहीन कृषि मजदूर कल्याण योजना", abbreviated DDUBKMKY; covers roughly 5.62 lakh identified families and transfers the money straight into their bank accounts.

What is Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana?

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana exists to close a gap that central and state farm support schemes leave wide open. PM-KISAN and most state farmer income schemes, including Chhattisgarh's own input subsidy for paddy growers, pay on the basis of land held. A family that works the land but owns none receives nothing from any of them, even though it is usually poorer than the family that owns the field.

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana inverts that test. Here, landlessness is not a disqualification but the eligibility criterion itself. The family that owns no khasra number is exactly the family the scheme is looking for.

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana replaced an earlier scheme with the same target group. The previous state government ran the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Nyay Yojana, which paid a lower annual amount to landless labour families. The present scheme continues the same idea at Rs 10,000 a year and under a new name and administrative design. Beneficiaries of the earlier scheme are not automatically carried across. The current registration is what counts.

The scheme also recognises that "agricultural labour" in a Chhattisgarh village is a broader category than daily wage work in a field. The identified group extends to rural households dependent on traditional service occupations and allied rural work who hold no farm land, which is why the panchayat-level identification process, rather than a purely paper-based test, sits at the centre of the design.

Who is eligible for the scheme?

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is open to a family that meets all of these:

• The family must reside in a rural area of Chhattisgarh, within the gram panchayat where it registers.
• The family must own no agricultural land — not in the name of the head of family, and not in the name of any other member of the family. This is verified by the patwari against village land records.
• The family must depend on agricultural labour, or on the allied rural occupations the scheme recognises, for its livelihood.
• The head of the family registering under the scheme must have completed 18 years of age.
• The family must have a bank account seeded with Aadhaar, because the payment is made only by direct benefit transfer.

The scheme is open to agricultural labourers of all castes; there is no caste restriction.

The following are not eligible and cannot apply:

• Families that own agricultural land in any name within the family, however small the holding. Ownership of a fraction of a khasra number disqualifies.
• Households resident in urban areas, since the scheme is a rural one administered through gram panchayats.
• Applicants below 18 years of age.
• Households claiming a second registration when one already exists in the family. One family means one benefit; duplicate entries are removed during verification.
• Non-residents of Chhattisgarh.

Note that owning a house or a homestead plot does not disqualify a family. The test is agricultural land, not all land. This distinction confuses many applicants and is worth confirming with the patwari if your family holds only a dwelling plot.

How much is paid, and when?

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana pays Rs 10,000 per family per year. The payment is per family and not per adult, so a household with three working adults still receives Rs 10,000 in total.

The money is released in instalments whose timing the state government announces, usually with a public transfer event. In the instalment released on 25 March 2026, approximately 4.95 lakh beneficiaries received a total of about Rs 495 crore directly into their accounts. Payment is entirely by direct benefit transfer; there is no cash, no cheque and no intermediary. Any person who offers to hand over the money in cash for a cut is defrauding you.

How to apply for Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana

Registration under Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is done at the gram panchayat, not on a self-service website. Follow these steps:

1. Check that your bank account is Aadhaar-seeded. Visit the branch and ask for confirmation of seeding, or check at a Common Service Centre. A payment cannot reach an unseeded account, so this is the single most useful thing to do before anything else.
2. Watch for the registration window. The Panchayat and Rural Development Department announces registration periods; the gram panchayat notice board, the panchayat secretary and the scheme portal all carry the dates.
3. Go to the gram panchayat office and collect the registration form from the panchayat secretary. Fill it in the name of the head of the family, with the name spelt exactly as it appears on Aadhaar and on the bank passbook.
4. Attach copies of Aadhaar, the bank passbook, residence proof and age proof, and file the declaration that the family owns no agricultural land. Submit the set to the panchayat secretary and collect a dated acknowledgement.
5. Cooperate with the patwari's verification against village land records. This is the step that establishes landlessness and the step at which most rejections happen.
6. After the gram sabha and the panchayat approve the list, check your registration on the scheme portal at revenue.cg.nic.in/ddubkmky, using your registered mobile number or Aadhaar number.
7. Watch your bank passbook when the state announces an instalment release. Where the release is announced but no credit appears, take your acknowledgement and passbook to the panchayat secretary.

No fee is charged at any stage. The government does not collect money for registration under this scheme.

How do I check my registration and payment status?

The scheme portal at revenue.cg.nic.in/ddubkmky carries registration details and application status pages. Open the registration details or application status link and enter the mobile number you gave at registration, or your Aadhaar number, to see whether your record exists and its current position. The gram panchayat secretary holds the same list offline and can look up your name from the panchayat register, which is usually the faster route in a village with poor connectivity. For a payment that the portal shows as released but which is not in the account, the next stop is the bank branch, since the failure is then almost always at the account end.

Why do registrations get rejected, and how do you fix them?

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana rejections have consistent causes:

• Land found in the family's name. The patwari's check finds a holding, often inherited land the applicant did not know was recorded in a relative's name within the family. Examine the record yourself at the patwari halka office; if the entry is genuinely wrong, apply for correction through the tehsildar.
• Aadhaar not seeded with the bank account. The registration succeeds but the payment fails. Complete the seeding at the branch and the amount is normally released in the next cycle.
• Name mismatch. The name on Aadhaar, on the bank passbook and in the panchayat register must match. Correct the bank record, which is usually the easiest of the three to change.
• Duplicate family registration. Two members of the same household registering separately results in one being struck off. Register once, in the head of family's name.
• Registration filed outside the announced window. Forms submitted when no window is open are not processed. Wait for and use the announced period.
• Dormant bank account. An account with no activity for a long period may be inoperative. Reactivate it with fresh KYC.

Where do I complain if something goes wrong?

Grievances under Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana are raised first with the gram panchayat secretary and the sarpanch, since the panchayat holds the register. If the issue is a wrong land record, the route is the patwari and then the tehsildar of the Revenue Department. If the issue is exclusion from an approved list despite meeting the conditions, escalate in writing to the Janpad Panchayat Chief Executive Officer at block level and then to the Zila Panchayat Chief Executive Officer at district level, and to the District Collector. For a payment shown as released but not credited, take the matter to the bank branch and, if unresolved, to the bank's grievance cell. Keep dated copies of every application and acknowledgement, in a scheme where the register is the entitlement, the acknowledgement slip is the most valuable paper you hold.

Key dates and current status

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is currently operating, with an instalment released on 25 March 2026 reaching about 4.95 lakh beneficiaries with roughly Rs 495 crore, against approximately 5.62 lakh families identified statewide. Registration is not permanently open. The department announces windows, and the practical advice is to register during the first window your panchayat announces rather than waiting, because families who miss a window wait for the next one and lose a payment cycle. The scheme succeeded the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Nyay Yojana, so a beneficiary of that earlier scheme should confirm at the gram panchayat that a fresh registration exists in the current list rather than assuming continuity.