Sindhudurg’s farmer debt-relief programme has delivered Rs 14.40 crore to 2,758 farmers, but a further 1,556 e-KYC cases remain pending and 1,062 eligible farmers have no Farmer ID. The figures reveal that the scheme’s delivery problem is not limited to delayed verification: it is also tied to how land ownership and cultivation are recorded in official systems.
The farmers excluded by the Farmer ID condition include women farmers, heirs cultivating land after obtaining consent from family members, and cultivators working on temple endowment and other assigned lands. In many of these cases, the farmer’s name is not recorded in the land record known as the seven-twelve extract, preventing registration for a Farmer ID.
The issue…