Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomiheen Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana

What is Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomiheen Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana?

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomiheen Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is a Chhattisgarh state scheme that pays Rs 10,000 a year to families that work on agricultural land but own none of it. The scheme portal, maintained by the Office of the Commissioner, Land Records under the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, describes its purpose as increasing the net income of landless agricultural labour families and providing them economic support.

The scheme fills a real gap. Central and state farmer income schemes are land-linked: PM-KISAN and the state's paddy support schemes both need a khasra number in the beneficiary's name. A family that ploughs, transplants and harvests for a living but has no land record is invisible to all of them. This scheme is built on the opposite test, landlessness itself is the qualification.

Scale, as recorded on the official portal

• 5,62,112 beneficiaries registered across Chhattisgarh
• 32,282 of them from Baiga, Gunia and similar traditional-occupation households
• Rs 562 crore total allocation for the annual payout
• Payment made directly to the bank account of the beneficiary

The scheme is commonly referred to locally as Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana, and in Hindi as Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomiheen Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana. The Chief Minister launched the payout in January 2025, and news reports of March 2026 record a second instalment release under which about 4.95 lakh beneficiaries received roughly Rs 495 crore.

Who is eligible for the landless agricultural labour scheme?

A family can register if:

• The family is resident in Chhattisgarh.
• The family holds no agricultural land in its own name. Landlessness is the core test.
• The family's livelihood comes from agricultural labour.
• The family has an Aadhaar card, a ration card and a bank account in the name of the head of the family.

Special category, also eligible:

• Priests, Baiga, Gunia, Manjhi, Hat Pahariya and Baja-Mohariya households in scheduled areas. These are traditional-service households, landless in the same way but not agricultural labour in the usual sense, and the portal lists them as a separate registration stream with its own application form.

A family is not eligible if:

• The family owns agricultural land. A landholding recorded in the family's name in the revenue records disqualifies it, and the patwari verification is precisely where this is caught.
• The family is not resident in Chhattisgarh.
• The family is already registered under the scheme through another member. The benefit is per family, not per adult, so two registrations from one household are treated as duplicates.
• The head of the family has no bank account or an account that cannot be Aadhaar-seeded, because payment is DBT-only.

How to apply for Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana

1. Collect the registration form from your gram panchayat office if you live in a village, or from the urban local body office (nagar panchayat, nagar palika or nagar nigam) if you live in a town. The scheme portal issues separate guidelines and forms for rural and urban bodies.
2. Use the correct form. There is a general registration form for landless agricultural labour families and a separate form for the special traditional-occupation categories in scheduled areas.
3. Fill in the family details, including the name of the head of the family, Aadhaar number, ration card number, bank account number and IFSC code.
4. Attach the documents: Aadhaar card, ration card, bank passbook copy, Chhattisgarh residence proof, and the declaration of landlessness.
5. Submit the completed form to the gram panchayat secretary or the urban body office within the registration window announced for the round.
6. Wait for verification. The patwari and revenue staff check the declaration of landlessness against the revenue records, and the panchayat or urban body displays the provisional list.
7. Check your name in the published list and raise an objection at the same office immediately if it is missing or wrongly recorded.
8. Receive the payment in the registered bank account when the state releases the instalment.

There is no self-service online application. The portal at revenue.cg.nic.in/ddubkmky is used by officials to maintain the database and by citizens to view scheme information and lists.

What documents are required?

How is the Rs 10,000 paid?

The amount is annual, not monthly. It is credited by Direct Benefit Transfer into the bank account recorded at registration, in instalments released by the state government. The Chief Minister launched the first payout in January 2025 to over 5.62 lakh beneficiaries, and a further release in March 2026 covered about 4.95 lakh beneficiaries with roughly Rs 495 crore.

The gap between the registered count and the paid count in a given round is worth understanding. It is usually not a cut in the scheme: it is accounts that failed verification, duplicates removed, and families whose landlessness declaration did not survive the revenue check. If your neighbours were paid and you were not, that is the first place to look.

How to check your status and the beneficiary list

1. Ask the gram panchayat secretary or the urban body clerk to show the published beneficiary list for your ward or village.
2. Open revenue.cg.nic.in/ddubkmky for scheme information and any list or report the Commissioner, Land Records has published for public viewing.
3. Check your bank passbook or SMS alerts for the DBT credit after a release is announced.
4. If registered but unpaid, take your registration acknowledgement to the tehsil office, which holds the revenue-side record.

Why registrations get rejected or payments fail

• Land found in the family's name during patwari verification. This is the most common rejection, and it is not appealable if the record is correct.
• Bank account not Aadhaar-seeded, so the DBT credit bounces back.
• Account dormant because it has had no transaction for a long period. Visit the branch to reactivate.
• Name mismatch between Aadhaar, the ration card and the bank record.
• Duplicate registration by two members of the same household. One entry is cancelled.
• Form submitted after the registration window closed for that round. Wait for the next round announced by the Commissioner, Land Records.

Why the scheme is separate from farmer income schemes

Chhattisgarh already runs substantial support for cultivators, and the central government runs PM-KISAN. Every one of those benefits is attached to a land record. A landless labour family therefore sits outside all of them by design, even though it does most of the physical work of the season and carries the same exposure to a failed monsoon or a delayed harvest.

Deendayal Upadhyay Bhoomiheen Krishi Majdoor Kalyan Yojana is the state's answer to that gap, and its administration reflects it. The scheme is not run by the Agriculture Department at all, but by the Office of the Commissioner, Land Records under Revenue and Disaster Management, because the one fact that has to be established is a negative one, that the family holds no land. Only the revenue machinery, the patwari and the tehsil office, can certify that against the record of rights. Registration through the gram panchayat and verification through the patwari are two halves of the same test.

The inclusion of Baiga, Gunia, Manjhi, Hat Pahariya, Baja-Mohariya and priest households in scheduled areas follows the same logic from a different direction. These are traditional-occupation families in tribal areas who are landless and whose work is not wage agricultural labour either, so a scheme built purely on the farm-labour definition would have missed them. The portal accordingly maintains a separate application form and a separate count, 32,282 of the 5,62,112 registered beneficiaries.

Where to raise a grievance

• Gram panchayat secretary or urban local body office: registration, correction and list inclusion.
• Patwari and tehsildar — anything relating to the land record or the landlessness verification.
• Office of the Commissioner, Land Records, Chhattisgarh, the administrative authority for the scheme, reachable through the portal at revenue.cg.nic.in/ddubkmky.

Registration is free. No panchayat official, agent or middleman is entitled to charge a fee for adding a family to the beneficiary list, and no official will ask for your bank OTP.