PM-PRANAM Launched to Promote Sustainable Fertilizer Use and Restore Soil Health Across States

• PM-PRANAM = PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness Generation, Nourishment, and Amelioration of Mother-Earth — a Central scheme that incentivises States/UTs via grants to cut chemical fertilizer consumption and push alternate, organic & natural farming.
• Operates on a subsidy-savings sharing model: half the saved fertilizer subsidy returned to the State as a grant.
• UPSC-relevant because it sits at the intersection of agriculture, fiscal federalism, soil/environmental sustainability, and cooperative federalism.