STATUS OF PM-MKSSY

Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying STATUS OF PM-MKSSY प्रव तथ: 11 AUG 2026 5:37PM by PIB Delhi The Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Dairying has been implementing a Central Sector Sub-scheme namely the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah- Yojana (PM-MKSSY) under the ongoing Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) for a period of four years from FY 2023-24 to FY 2026-27 at an estimated outlay of ₹6000 crore. The National Fisheries Digital Platform (NFDP) was launched under PM-MKSSY to meet the following aims and objectives of the sub-scheme: - i. Gradual formalization of the unorganized fisheries sector including creation of work based digital identities of fish workers for improved service delivery. ii. Facilitating greater access to institutional finance including working capital in order to enable the fish farmers, fishers and micro and small enterprises to reduce their capital cost and to expand their operations. iii. Strengthening fisheries cooperatives by enhancing their institutional capacity, improving market access, facilitating access to finance, and business development plans and need based support. iv. Providing one-time incentive to the fish farmers for purchase of aquaculture insurance. v. Incentivizing fisheries and aquaculture microenterprises to improve value-chain efficiencies and to create and maintain jobs through performance grants. vi. Incentivizing micro and small enterprises in the fisheries sector to establish supply chains of safe fish and fishery products including creation and maintenance of jobs through performance grants. Under the PM-MKSSY, the Sub-scheme provides support for: (i) formalization of the unorganized part of fisheries sector through National Fisheries Digital Platform and its Apps (ii) facilitating access to institutional credit, (iii) adoption of aquaculture insurance by providing ‘one-time incentive’ to the farmers by providing 40% of the premium (up to ₹25,000 per hectare, or ₹1 lakh per farmer for 4 hectares, SC/ST and women beneficiaries get an additional 10% incentive (iv) improvement of fisheries value-chain efficiencies and establishment of supply chains of safe fish products to consumers through Performance grant for a Microenterprise i.e. 25% of the total investment or Rs.35 lakhs, whichever is lower, for General Category and 35% of total investment or Rs.45 lakhs, whichever is lower, for SC, ST and Women owned microenterprises. In addition, Performance Grant for Village Level Organizations and Federations of SHGs, FFPOs and Cooperatives shall not exceed 35% of total investment or Rs.200 lakhs, whichever is lower. Along with this, PM-MKSSY aims to provide an amount of Rs.10,000 and Rs.15,000 per year for creation and maintenance of jobs for men and woman respectively subject to the limit of 50% of total eligible grant. As on 06-08-2026, about 35.92 lakh fishers, fish farmers and other stakeholders have registered on NFDP. A total of 3829 primary fisheries cooperatives has been approved for strengthening at a total cost of Rs. 72.75 crores. Aquaculture Insurance policies for 2294 hectare has been covered against which 127beneficiaries covering 321.74 ha have availed the One-Time Incentive (OTI) amounting to Rs. 40.03 lakh. Further, under the Credit Module, 535 loans have been sanctioned by the banks with loan amount of Rs 28.04 crores and 180 beneficiaries have availed the Success Fee benefit. Under Performance Grant, 84 applications have been approved with eligible Performance Grant of Rs.20.55 crore, out of these, an amount of Rs. 4.33 crore has been released to 21 beneficiaries. The State-wise details of the micro and small fisheries enterprises supported under PM-MKSSY is given at Annexure-I. **** Annexure-I STATEMENT REGARDING STATUS OF PM-MKSSY Table 1: Support Provided to Small and Micro Fisheries Enterprises for Formalization of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector including Facilitation of Credit, Strengthening of Cooperatives and Aquaculture Insurance under PM-MKSSY Sl. No. Name of the States/UTs Number of Small and Micro Fisheries Enterprises supported 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 3,942 2 Andhra Pradesh 2,04,967 3 Assam 1,09,494 4 Bihar 1,10,350 5 Chhattisgarh 46,313 6 Goa 2,234 7 Gujarat 1,02,813 8 Haryana 4,592 9 Himachal Pradesh 11,288 10 Jammu and Kashmir 21,005 11 Jharkhand 26,970 12 Karnataka 82,185 13 Kerala 1,79,48714 Ladakh 82 15 Lakshadweep 2,895 16 Madhya Pradesh 69,636 17 Maharashtra 2,15,000 18 Manipur 9,673 19 Meghalaya 8,794 20 Mizoram 3,521 21 Nagaland 5,304 22 Odisha 1,41,400 23 Punjab 3,022 24 Rajasthan 3,264 25 Sikkim 1,598 26 Tamil Nadu 1,93,612 27 Telangana 2,35,665 28 Tripura 94,791 29 Uttar Pradesh 98,707 30 Uttarakhand 7,833 31 Arunachal Pradesh 3,579 32 Delhi 494 33 Puducherry 552 34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu 4,230 35 West Bengal 4920,09,341 Table 2: Support Provided to Small and Micro Enterprises of Fisheries Sector for Performance Grant Incentive under PM-MKSSY Sl. No. Name of the States Number of Small and Micro Fisheries Enterprises supported 1 Assam 20 2 Bihar 6 3 Chhattisgarh 1 4 Gujarat 1 5 Karnataka 7 6 Madhya Pradesh 28 7 Maharashtra 9 8 Punjab 1 9 Tamil Nadu 4 10 Uttar Pradesh 4 11 Uttarakhand 2 12 West Bengal 1 Total 84 This Information was given by Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh in the Lok Sabha in response to a question asked. ***** JP. (रलीज़ आईडी: 2297731) आगंतुक पटल : 706 इस वज्ञ को इन भाषाओ ंम पढ़: Urdu , ही