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Kisan e-Mitra

Kisan e-Mitra is an AI chatbot built for the PM-KISAN scheme. This article covers its launch, how it works, and its reach so far.

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IndEco0071 · Kisan e-Mitra

Total queries resolved

95 lakh (9.5 million) queries answered as of July 2025 — Social Protection AI Hub

Farmers enrolled with Kisan e-Mitra

Wadhwani AI, Jul 2025

Grievances resolved since Feb 2024 upgrade

Wadhwani AI

Queries handled per day, at peak volume

AI Hub, Apr 2025

28+8

States and Union Territories covered

Wadhwani AI

Indic languages, via Bhashini translation

Ministry of Agriculture

📑 Contents

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare launched Kisan e-Mitra in September 2023. It was India's first AI chatbot built into a major central government scheme.
Kisan e-Mitra answers farmer questions about the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme. It covers application status, payment details, and reasons for ineligibility.
Farmers can ask questions by voice or by text. Kisan e-Mitra replies in the farmer's own language, in both text and audio.
The chatbot understands and replies in 11 Indic languages. This works through Bhashini, India's National Language Translation Mission.

In February 2024, Wadhwani AI led a major upgrade to Kisan e-Mitra. This upgrade added a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate its responses.
By July 2025, more than 4 lakh farmers had enrolled with Kisan e-Mitra. Over 2.9 lakh farmers received support through it since the February 2024 upgrade.
Kisan e-Mitra has resolved more than 5 million farmer grievances since that February 2024 upgrade. It now works across 28 states and 8 Union Territories.
Farmers can reach Kisan e-Mitra anytime, day or night. It's available through the PM-KISAN portal and the PM-KISAN mobile app.

Kisan e-Mitra was originally built with support from the EkStep Foundation and Bhashini. PM-KISAN itself is a huge scheme: it gives ₹6,000 a year to more than 9 crore farming families.
Kisan e-Mitra later became one of several digital tools folded into the Digital Agriculture Mission. This shows how a single-scheme chatbot can grow into wider government infrastructure.
Kisan e-Mitra reflects a broader shift in how India delivers welfare schemes. Grievances once handled manually are now resolved through an AI-first, self-service tool.

By July 2025, Kisan e-Mitra had over 4 lakh farmers enrolled. (Source: Wadhwani AI)
Since its February 2024 upgrade, Kisan e-Mitra has resolved more than 5 million grievances. It has also directly supported over 2.9 lakh farmers, across 28 states and 8 Union Territories. (Source: Wadhwani AI)
As of February 2026, Kisan e-Mitra handles about 8,000 farmer queries a day, in eleven regional languages, as part of the Digital Agriculture Mission's toolset. (Source: Biometric Update)
A separate figure, as of April 2025, put daily query volume higher, at over 20,000 farmer queries a day. By July 2025, Kisan e-Mitra had resolved over 95 lakh (9.5 million) queries in total. (Source: Social Protection AI Hub)