Modi Govt Ration Scheme: According to media reports the central government has made up its mind to once again extend this biggest scheme of distributing free ration by six months (by March 2023).
PMGKAY update: if you have a ration card and you are taking free ration under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana the this news is of your use. Actually, this scheme was launched in April 2020 during the kovid period. Later in march 2022, the scheme was extended for six months till september. Now it is a discussion whether the government once again or not?
80 crore people directly connected:This scheme of the government is being discussed because 80 crore people are directly connected with it. According to media reports, the central government has once again made up its mind to extend this biggest scheme of distributing free ration by six month (by march 2023). This has also been indicated by the secretary of the cental Food Department. However, it has not been officially announced about this.
So farv Rs 3.40 lakh crore has been spent: According to officials the Pardhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana is the world’s largest food scheme. The government has sufficient stock of food grains for this. The stock position was also reviewed for this by the government. so far Rs 3.40 lakh crore hs been spent on this scheme by the government. In such a situation, ration card holder will be directly benefited by increasing this scheme.
Benefits under the scheme:Under this scheme of the central government, 5 kg ration per person is provided to all the poor ration card holder families of the country. Initially, under the scheme the family was given one kilogram of gram dal and a kit of essential spices. Earlier this scheme was only for ration card holder. Later, those poor families were also added to it, who did not have ration cards.