Kisan Samriddhi Yojana (Chhattisgarh)

What is Kisan Samriddhi Yojana in Chhattisgarh?

Kisan Samriddhi Yojana is a state-funded irrigation scheme of the Chhattisgarh Department of Agriculture Development, Farmer Welfare and Biotechnology, implemented through the Directorate of Agriculture at Raipur. The scheme, listed as state-funded scheme number 2 on the department's own state schemes page at agriportal.cg.nic.in, pays a cash subsidy to a farmer who sinks a tube well on his or her own field and installs an irrigation pump on it. Local readers know it by its Hindi name, किसान समृद्धि योजना, and it is often described in district notices simply as the nalkoop khanan (tube well drilling) scheme.

Chhattisgarh grows a very large single kharif paddy crop, and a majority of its cultivated area still depends on rainfall. Kisan Samriddhi Yojana exists to move individual holdings from one rain-fed crop to two assured crops by giving each holding its own groundwater source. The Chhattisgarh outcome budget states the objective in one line: increase in irrigated area and promotion of assured irrigation.

The scheme is deliberately aimed at the vrishti-chhaya (rain-shadow) belt of the state. The quantifiable deliverable printed against the scheme in the Chhattisgarh outcome budget is "tube wells for rain-shadow areas", which tells you where the annual target is concentrated.

How much money does Chhattisgarh spend on Kisan Samriddhi Yojana?

The state outcome budget, published by the Chhattisgarh Finance Department for the agriculture department, gives the only fully official year-on-year figures for this scheme:

Two things follow from that table. First, Kisan Samriddhi Yojana is a small, target-bound scheme, roughly two thousand tube wells a year across 33 districts, which works out to a few dozen per district. Second, the target is finite, so a farmer who registers demand in April or May has a far better chance than one who approaches the block office in December.

How much subsidy does a farmer get?

Kisan Samriddhi Yojana pays in two parts: one for drilling the tube well and one for installing the pump on a successful bore. Agriculture-scheme trackers that follow the Chhattisgarh Directorate of Agriculture's circulars report the category-wise ceilings as follows:

Each amount is paid as "the fixed rate or the actual cost, whichever is less", which is the standard formula in Chhattisgarh agriculture subsidy orders. These rates come from scheme trackers rather than a machine-readable government page, the department's own guideline PDF is a scanned document, so treat them as indicative and confirm the running year's unit cost with your Senior Agriculture Development Officer before you place an order with a driller.

Who is eligible for Kisan Samriddhi Yojana?

You can apply if:

• You are a permanent resident of Chhattisgarh and hold cultivable land recorded in your own name.
• Your holding meets the minimum area the block office applies for the scheme, commonly reported as 1 hectare.
• The proposed site is far enough from any existing tube well or handpump; reported as a minimum of 300 metres — so the new bore does not compete with an existing source.
• You are willing to build the mandatory recharge structure around the tube well.

Farmers of all categories are covered, but the scheme guideline directs that priority go to small and marginal farmers, and Chhattisgarh's agriculture schemes generally give further weight to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and women farmers.

You are not eligible if:

• You have already received a tube well, well or pump under another government irrigation scheme; repeat benefit on the same holding is barred.
• You cultivate land you do not own and have no recorded holding. A landless agricultural labourer or an unrecorded sharecropper cannot apply.
• Your proposed site fails the spacing test against a neighbouring bore or handpump.
• You are outside Chhattisgarh, since this is a state-funded scheme paid from the state budget.

Selection is not made by the department alone. As with other beneficiary-oriented schemes of the Chhattisgarh agriculture department, the beneficiary list is put through the three-tier panchayat system; gram panchayat, janpad panchayat and zila panchayat: before it is approved.

What documents are required?

The Agri-Subsidy portal publishes a list of valid borewell drillers (वैध नलकूप खननकर्ताओं की सूची) district by district. Using a driller who is not on that list is one of the quickest ways to have a claim rejected.

How to apply for Kisan Samriddhi Yojana

1. Meet your RAEO. Go to the Rural Agriculture Extension Officer for your cluster of villages, or directly to the block agriculture office, and state that you want to register demand under Kisan Samriddhi Yojana for the running financial year.
2. Submit the application with documents. Attach your Aadhaar, B-1 and Khasra, bank passbook copy and, if you are claiming the SC, ST or OBC rate, your caste certificate.
3. Wait for the demand to be entered in the MIS. The block office records your demand in the department's Agri-Subsidy system at agriportal.cg.nic.in/agrisubsidy, where it is counted against the block's scheme target for the year.
4. Get the site inspected and the case approved. Departmental staff verify the holding, the site and the spacing from existing sources, and the beneficiary list is passed through the panchayat tiers.
5. Get the tube well drilled by a listed driller. Use a driller from the department's valid-driller list and keep the bill and receipt.
6. Install the pump on a successful bore. Buy the pump and retain the invoice, since the pump component is claimed separately.
7. File the demand letter after completion. Submit the completion demand with bills to the Senior Agriculture Development Officer.
8. Physical verification and payment. Departmental staff physically verify the tube well and pump on site, after which the subsidy is transferred to your bank account.

How to check the status of your case

Kisan Samriddhi Yojana has no individual login for farmers, so status checking happens in two places:

• The block agriculture office, which holds the running register of demands and sanctions for your gram panchayat.
• The Agri-Subsidy MIS at agriportal.cg.nic.in/agrisubsidy, which publishes block-wise and district-wise application counts and a scheme-wise subsidy demand sheet (अनुदान मांग पत्रक). Selecting your district, "किसान समृद्धि योजना" and the financial year shows how much of the block's money has been committed, which tells you whether fresh sanctions are still possible.

Why Kisan Samriddhi Yojana claims get rejected

• The annual target for the block is already full. This is the most common reason, and it is not a defect in your papers.
• The land record is not in the applicant's name, or the Khasra shown does not match the site where drilling happened.
• Spacing rule failed, an existing tube well or handpump sits closer than the permitted distance.
• Work done before approval. Drilling started before the case was sanctioned and inspected leaves no verifiable trail.
• Driller not on the department's valid list, so the bill is not accepted.
• Benefit already taken under another irrigation scheme on the same holding.
• Bank account not seeded with Aadhaar, which blocks the DBT credit even after approval.

Grievance and help

Raise the first complaint with your Rural Agriculture Extension Officer, then the Senior Agriculture Development Officer at block level, and then the Deputy Director of Agriculture at the district. The Agri-Subsidy portal also carries a problem and suggestion status page (समस्या/सुझाव की स्थिति) where tickets raised through departmental staff can be tracked. The Directorate of Agriculture at Raipur is the final departmental authority.

No fee is charged for applying under Kisan Samriddhi Yojana. Neither the RAEO nor any driller can lawfully charge you for "getting your name in the list", and the subsidy is paid only into the beneficiary's own bank account, never through a middleman.