Paswan, Arun KumarGaur, Rishabh Singh2023-01-242023-01-242022M/EE/006/2020-21https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810192720The study entitled “PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme: Its Awareness and Utilization pattern in Kanpur Dehat district (UP)”. The study was carried out with specific objectives to assess the awareness and utilization pattern of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme along with the association between independent and dependent variables selected in the study. Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh was purposively selected for the study. There are ten blocks in Kanpur Dehat district. Out of ten blocks, two blocks were selected purposively i.e. the blocks which were having maximum PM-Kisan beneficiary in Kanpur Dehat. Further, two villages from each block were selected following the random sampling technique. For selection of respondents, 30 PM-Kisan beneficiaries from each of the four selected villages were chosen as sample respondents by following the random sampling technique. Thus, a total of 120 PM-Kisan beneficiaries were constituted as sample respondents for the study purpose. The information was collected through personal interview method by visiting the farm and home of the respondents. The collected data were analyzed with the help of frequency distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and correlation analysis. The study reveals that, majority of the respondents (61.66 %) were found under the old aged group, having functionally literate (30.83 percent, majority), belongs to Other backward Caste (45 percent) , small size of family (87.50 percent), had small size of land holding (45.00 percent), member in one organization (38.33 percent), having medium level of annual income (65.83 percent), having medium level of farming experience (57.5 percent). The findings also depicted that majority of the respondents have medium level of risk orientation, economic motivation, scientific orientation and innovativeness. It has been observed from the study that maximum percentage (54.17 percent) of the respondents had high level of awareness and utilization pattern (57.50 percent) of money received through PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. The relationship between socio-economic variables and awareness level about PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme of the study indicated that four independent variables namely age, size of the family and farming experience were found to be positively correlated at 1% level of significance whereas, variable annual income is positively correlated with the awareness level at 5% level of significance about PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. It means above four independent variables were significantly contributed towards level of awareness PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Regarding relationship between socio-economic variables and utilization of the money of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme by beneficiary respondents shows that seven variables were found to be significant. Out of these seven variables, four independent variables viz. education, size of the family, economic motivation and innovativeness were found to be significant at 1 percent level of significance. Whereas, variables viz. size of the land holding, annual income and scientific orientation were found to be significant at 5 percent level of significance. It can be concluded that above mentioned seven independent variables were significantly contributed towards utilization pattern of money received from PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme.EnglishThesis