Anurag Thakur addresses press convention briefing concerning the newest Cabinet choices.
The whole expenditure on PMGKAY scheme shall be round Rs 11.8 lakh crore through the subsequent 5 years from January 1, 2024
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has prolonged the (*80*) Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for an additional 5 years from January 1, 2024, mentioned Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday. The scheme was final prolonged until December 31, 2023.
Under the PMGKAY scheme, over 80 crore poor individuals are offered 5 kilograms of free foodgrains per thirty days.
A choice to increase the scheme was taken within the assembly of the Cabinet on Tuesday.
Sharing particulars, Anurag Thakur on Wednesday mentioned the PMGKAY scheme has been prolonged for an additional 5 years from January 1, 2024. He added that the expenditure on scheme shall be round Rs 11.8 lakh crore through the subsequent 5 years.
The PMGKAY was launched in 2020 as a pandemic reduction measure, underneath which 5 kg of free foodgrains per beneficiary per thirty days was offered along with the 5 kg of subsidised foodgrain underneath the National Food Security Act (NFSA).
In December 2022, as PMGKAY got here to an finish after a number of extensions, it was subsumed underneath the NFSA offering ration free for one yr.
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