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Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)

  • July 2, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Scheme

Context:

Prime minister has announced extension of PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) till the end of November which will cost over Rs 90 thousand crore for centre.

Concept:

  • Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana aims at ensuring sufficient food the poor and needy during the coronavirus crisis.
  • Scheme covers 80 crore individuals, i.e, roughly two-thirds of India’s population.
  • The existing National Food Security Act provides 5kg of foodgrain per person monthly at a subsidised rate of Rs 2-3 per kg to the country’s poor.
  • Each one of them would be provided double of their current entitlement over next three months. This additionality would be free of cost.
  • To ensure adequate availability of protein to all, 1 kg per family, would be provided pulses according to regional preferences. These pulses would be provided free of cost by the Government of India.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) Schemes

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