Food Grain Scheme For Poor

With general elections scheduled for April-May next year, the government extended the PMGKAY scheme to provide 5 kgs of free foodgrains per month to 81.35 crore poor for another five years that would cost the exchequer about Rs 11.80 lakh crore.

Around 112 lakh metric tonnes of food grains have been lifted by states of the total 198 LMT allotted under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana

The Centre has extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana for five months and has allotted 198.78 metric tonnes of food grains under it.

The decisions taken by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday for urban migrants and the poor will bring a positive change in the lives of many people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

The Union Cabinet today approved extending the scheme for distribution of free food grains to the country's poorest until the end of November to help them cope with the economic pain of the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The Uttar Pradesh government has admitted that a scam worth crores, in which food grain meant for the poor, under the Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) was being diverted to the open market by ration shop owners and officials

About 13,000 metric tonnes of foodgrain worth Rs 3 crore, meant to be distributed to poor families under the government's public distribution scheme, has gone missing from a Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The depot manager has reportedly suggested that rats ate the 13,000 metric tonnes of rice and 37 metric tonn...

With general elections scheduled for April-May next year, the government extended the PMGKAY scheme to provide 5 kgs of free foodgrains per month to 81.35 crore poor for another five years that would cost the exchequer about Rs 11.80 lakh crore.

Around 112 lakh metric tonnes of food grains have been lifted by states of the total 198 LMT allotted under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana

The Centre has extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana for five months and has allotted 198.78 metric tonnes of food grains under it.

The decisions taken by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday for urban migrants and the poor will bring a positive change in the lives of many people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

The Union Cabinet today approved extending the scheme for distribution of free food grains to the country's poorest until the end of November to help them cope with the economic pain of the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

The Uttar Pradesh government has admitted that a scam worth crores, in which food grain meant for the poor, under the Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) was being diverted to the open market by ration shop owners and officials

About 13,000 metric tonnes of foodgrain worth Rs 3 crore, meant to be distributed to poor families under the government's public distribution scheme, has gone missing from a Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The depot manager has reportedly suggested that rats ate the 13,000 metric tonnes of rice and 37 metric tonn...