New Delhi: The Narendra Modi authorities on Friday (April 23) stated that it’s going to guarantee free food grain supply for the needy for the subsequent two months. The authorities will provide free food grains to the poor folks for the month of May and June underneath PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana.
The poor and the needy will get 5 kg free food grains underneath PM Garib Kalyan Ann Scheme.
The free foodgrain scheme, is anticipated to be given to round 80 crore beneficiaries and the distribution shall be on the identical sample as final 12 months’s PM Garib Kalyan Yojana.
Government would spend over Rs 26,000 crore for the scheme. The present scheme is an extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) underneath which the Government introduced free food grains and money cost to girls and poor senior residents and farmers final 12 months.
Under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana , 37.52 LMT of food grains has been distributed to 75.04 crore beneficiaries in April ’20, 37.46 LMT distributed to 74.92 crore beneficiaries in May ’20, and 36.62 LMT distributed to 73.24 crore beneficiaries in June ’20. Scheme was additional prolonged for five months until November. Since then, 98.31 LMT foodgrains has been lifted by States /UTs to this point. In July ’20 36.09 LMT food grains has been distributed to 72.18 crore beneficiaries, in August ’20 30.22 LMT distributed to 60.44 crore beneficiaries, and in September ’20 1.92 LMT distributed to 3.84 crore beneficiaries as on seventh September,2020.
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