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What is PM Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana?

10 Apr 2023 Zinkpot 258
What is PM Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana?
  1. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) is a component of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package designed to assist the underprivileged in their fight against COVID-19.
  2. It is the new integrated food security system which provides free food grains to Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Primary Household (PHH) recipients and was implemented on January 1, 2023.
  3. Background: The scheme has been introduced amid the criticism from the opposition over the discontinuation of the free monthly distribution of 5 kilograms of food grains to poor people under a scheme that was also known as PMGKAY.
  4. The previous scheme was launched in April 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic and ended in December 2022.
  5. Until December 2022, the NFSA beneficiaries were getting their food grains entitlement at a highly subsidised rate of ₹1, ₹2 and ₹3 per kg for coarse cereals, wheat and rice respectively. However, from January 2023, the beneficiaries will get it for free.
  6. Under the new scheme, the entitlement of food grains per person per month is 5 kg for priority households category and 35 kg per family per month for Antyodaya Anna Yojana families.
  7. This scheme aims to provide free food grains to more than 80 crore poor people across the country.
  8. Central government is expected to spend more than ₹2 lakh crore in 2023 as food subsidy under the NFSA and other welfare schemes to remove the financial burden of the poor.
  9. Its nodal ministry is Ministry of Finance.

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