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: -

1. Gradual formalization of the unorganized fisheries sector including creation of work based digital identities of fish workers for improved service delivery.
2. 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.
3. Strengthening fisheries cooperatives by enhancing their institutional capacity, improving market access, facilitating access to finance, and business development plans and need based support.
4. Providing one-time incentive to the fish farmers for purchase of aquaculture insurance.
5. Incentivizing fisheries and aquaculture microenterprises to improve value-chain efficiencies and to create and maintain jobs through performance grants.
6. 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 127 beneficiaries 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.

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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	1,79,487
14	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	49
		20,09,341

 

Table 2: Support Provided to Small and Micro Enterprises of Fisheries Sector for Performance Grant Incentive under PM-MKSSY

 

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.

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