JIT payment is quick way to check farmer's pay

The government has launched the JIT payment portal for making the lives of farmers easy. National Informatics Centre (NIC) has come up with this innovative Kisan e payment platform to help farmers get their dues for crops sold under the MSP scheme in their respective bank accounts safe and sound. Farmers will be able to check their payments due real-time through JIP payment portal. This is a sure step to remove any middlemen between the farmers and the government and help farmers get their due payments on time. This is a revolutionary step as it will not let anyone eat into farmers’ hard-earned money.

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What is the JIT payment portal’s full form?

JIT is known as Just in time payment. It is a popular concept where things are done as and when the demand arises. In this case, as soon as the crops are sold under the MSP scheme, the sale proceeds are immediately transferred to the bank account of the farmers. The whole process is limited to the sale of specific crops like wheat, paddy, jowar, gram, lentil, and mustard under the MSP scheme.

What is the JIT payment portal?

JIP payment is a portal launched by NIC for farmers to help them with the easy transfer of sale proceeds of crops sold under the MSP scheme to their bank accounts. It is an online platform for farmers to check their payment status real-time. It helps the farmers to get their payments from the sale proceeds of crops under the MSP scheme directly from the government. The payment transfer is prompt and without any delays. JIT payment portal also facilitates e-payment of labor charges, commission, warehouse, loading, unloading, and other charges to societies/procurement centers and transporters to transporters based on specified rules. Through this JIT payment portal, online payment to farmers is done only for specific crops like wheat, paddy, jowar, gram, lentil, and mustard.

Who can access this JIT payment portal?

All the farmers across India have the access to this portal. Irrespective of the amount of transaction the farmer deals in, all will have access to this portal.

Note – The payment status of only those farmers will be available on this portal who have sold only wheat, paddy, jowar, gram, lentil, and mustard crops under the MSP scheme.

How to check the payment status on this portal?

The farmers may check their payment status by entering details like bank account number, and farmer code or ID. The portal has the below options:

Farmer’s payment status

Once you click on the above link

Enter your Username
Enter your password
Then click on the login button
Once you log in, you can see your JIT Dashboard which will display below information which can be accessed through your bank account number:
- Farmer payment status
- Labor Charges payment status
- Society Commission payment status
- Transporter – Track Payment
- Warehouse – Track Payment
- Unloading – Track Payment
- Loading payment status
- Handling payment status

Below can be accessed through the Farmer code

Farmer payment status
Labor Charges payment status
Society Commission payment status
Transporter – Track Payment
Warehouse – Track Payment
Unloading – Track Payment
Loading payment status
Handling payment status
Track farmers’ payment EPO
Track the payment of labor charges EPO
Track Society Commission Payments EPO

Check payment status through Bank account number

In case you choose to check farmer payment status through bank account number so:

Click at Farmer payment status
Enter the year
Choose the season whether rabi or Kharif
Enter the bank account number
Enter the letter in the text box
Click on payment status

In order to get the receipt click on the receipt.

Check payment status through Farmer code/ID

Click at Farmer payment status
Enter the year
Choose the season whether rabi or Kharif
Enter the 12 digit farmer ID or code
Enter the letter in the text box
Click on payment status

In order to get the receipt click on the receipt.

Farmers sow crops, nurture them, and after hardships, they harvest them and finally sell them in the market to earn their livelihood. When crops fail due to heavy rainfall or no rainfall, farmers are in soup with no money at their disposal. Their entire livelihood depends upon farming. If crops fail, they fail. Thus, farmers have faith in the MSP scheme. MSP is the minimum price guaranteed to the farmers, at which the government will purchase their produced crops. The rationale behind this was to protect the farmers from the price fluctuations and ensure they get assured prices for their crops irrespective of the market price. In case the market price of the crops falls, the farmers will not incur losses on their produce. The fluctuation of supply due to seasonality, and lack of price transparency in the market were responsible for fluctuations in the market price of the agricultural produce. The MSP is fixed even before the crop is sown, to encourage investment to produce agricultural crops.

Benefits of using JIP payment?

Everything is just a click away. Moreover, the page is available in Hindi for the ease of farmers. This is a great initiative to improve awareness and transparency and say goodbye to old redundant methods where it took more than 6 months for the farmers to receive their sale proceeds of crops.

Below are some of the benefits of this Just in time payment portal:

Speed and Time saving

It speedily transfers the sale proceeds of farmers to their bank account numbers linked to their names. There is no waiting period. Everything is automated thus speedy payments help the farmers to plan their next sowing season well in advance.

Transparency

There is no grey area or doubts when the payment status and all other statuses can be very well tracked online through this portal. The visibility of accurate information helps everyone to be well informed and aware of the situation. Transparency is the first step to trust-building.

Accessible

The tool is user-friendly in the Hindi language for all the literate farmers to know their payment status. For convenience, they may know the status through their bank account number as well as through their farmer’s unique code or identification number.

Reservoir of database

It will serve as a database for historical records in the long run. Any discrepancies can be checked and audited. The data will get recorded and will be available for anyone’s use.

Eliminate middlemen

Middlemen will be eliminated, as the payments will be directly transferred from the government to the farmer’s bank account. No one will be able to fill up their pockets in between. Thus, farmers will receive their complete due payments.

This JIT payment portal is a boon, but nevertheless, it may not be used to its full potential because of the very low literacy rate of rural India. Farmers may still be dependent upon literate’s to check their payment status or other records. There is a scope of manipulation here. Besides though India is digitally progressing in terms of the internet accessibility, still the internet penetration rate is lower in rural India. However, we expect that in the long run, this JIT portal will be widely used by farmers to protect their own interests.