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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)

Updated: 16 Oct 2025
Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti
Beneficiary: Farmers

Overview

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme aimed at ensuring “Har Khet Ko Pani” by expanding irrigation coverage, improving on-farm water use efficiency, promoting precision irrigation technologies, and encouraging sustainable water conservation through an integrated, inter-ministerial approach.

Quick facts 

  • Type: Centrally Sponsored Schemes
  • Purpose: Enhance physical access of water on farm and expand cultivable area under assured irrigation.
  • Dedicated Funds: Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) & Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) with NABARD.
  • Monitoring:  Central Water Commission and Ministry of Jal Shakti

Objectives 

  • Achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level.
  • Improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water.
  • Enhance the adoption of precision-irrigation and other water saving technologies (More crop per drop).
  • Enhance recharge of aquifers and introduce sustainable water conservation practices by exploring the feasibility of reusing treated municipal waste water for peri-urban agriculture.
  • Attract greater private investment in precision irrigation system.

Salient features

  • Inter-ministerial Scheme
    • Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD): Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP
    • Ministry of Jal Shakti: 
      • On Farm Water Management (OFWM) component of Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP). 
      • Har Khet Ko Pani (HKKP) 
    • Earlier Per Drop More Crop of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) was also a key component of the PMKSY. However, now MoA is implementing this scheme under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) Cafetaria Scheme 
  • Water Budgeting: In PMKSY, water budgeting is done for all sectors namely, household, agriculture and industries.
    • Water budget is a water management tool used to estimate the amount of water a landscape will require. 
  • Dedicated irrigation funds
2 Types of Fund Long Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) For funding & fast tracking the implementation of incomplete major and medium irrigation projects Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) To provide states financial assistance on concessional rate of interest

Components of PMKSY

  • Modernization of Command Area Development and Water Management (M-CADWM)
    • M-CADWM as a sub-scheme of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) is set to run for the period 2025-2026.
  • Objective: Modernization of the irrigation water supply network to supply of irrigation water from existing canals or other sources in a designated cluster.
    • It will make robust backend infrastructure for micro-irrigation by farmers from established source to the Farm gate up to 1 hectare with underground pressurized piped irrigation.
  • Technology: Use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Internet of things technology will be used for water accounting and water management.
  • OFWM (On Farm Water Management):
    • It was launched in n 1996-97 to accelerate implementation of such projects which were beyond resource capability of the States or were in advanced stage of completion.
    • Central Assistance to major/medium irrigation projects.
  • Har Khet ko Pani:
    • Creation of new water sources through Minor Irrigation (both surface and ground water).
    • Strengthening carrying capacity of traditional water sources, construction of rainwater harvesting structures.
    • Command Area Development.
  • IWMP (Integrated Watershed Management Programme):
    • Effective management of runoff water and improved soil & moisture conservation activities.
    • Three components:
      • Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP)
      • Desert Development Programme (DDP)
      • Integrated Wasteland Development Programme

Other features

  • Convergence with MGNREGS.
  • Monitoring
    • National Steering Committee (NSC) under Prime Minister with Union Ministers of all concerned Ministries 
    • National Executive Committee (NEC) under the Chairmanship of the Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog.