Free Grain Distribution

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.

The Delhi government has started free distribution of five kg food grains to non-PDS beneficiaries, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain said on Saturday.

Till May 24, 2021, FCI had supplied 48 LMT free food grains to all states and union territories, according to Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs.

The Madhya Pradesh government has taken action over the poor quality grain supplied to the tribal heartland of Balaghat and Mandla during the lockdown under the Public Distribution System. Terming it a "serious" matter, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered an investigation by the state's Economic Offences Wing. With free grain scheme fo...

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an address to the nation, announced an extension of Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana - the key government scheme to distribute free food grains to 80 crore people - till November to provide relief to the poor during the festival season amid the coronavirus crisis. The government plans to spend Rs 90,000 cror...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesdaythat a key government scheme to distribute free food grains to 80 crore of India's poorest would be extended by five months to November-end to give relief during the festival season as the country fights coronavirus.

As hundreds of migrants continue to travel a long distance in this COVID-19 crisis, Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday appealed to state governments to immediately lift food grains and pulses from the godowns and distribute them for free within a fortnight to 8 crore migrants who neither have centre nor state ration card.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced distribution of 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses free-of-cost every month over the next three months to the 80 crore poor across the country to deal with the economic impact of the lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to ensure free distribution of food grains to the hungry poor of the country instead of allowing it to rot in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns. "Give it to the hungry poor instead of it (grains) going down the drain," a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said in an o...

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.

The Delhi government has started free distribution of five kg food grains to non-PDS beneficiaries, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain said on Saturday.

Till May 24, 2021, FCI had supplied 48 LMT free food grains to all states and union territories, according to Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs.

The Madhya Pradesh government has taken action over the poor quality grain supplied to the tribal heartland of Balaghat and Mandla during the lockdown under the Public Distribution System. Terming it a "serious" matter, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered an investigation by the state's Economic Offences Wing. With free grain scheme fo...

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an address to the nation, announced an extension of Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana - the key government scheme to distribute free food grains to 80 crore people - till November to provide relief to the poor during the festival season amid the coronavirus crisis. The government plans to spend Rs 90,000 cror...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesdaythat a key government scheme to distribute free food grains to 80 crore of India's poorest would be extended by five months to November-end to give relief during the festival season as the country fights coronavirus.

As hundreds of migrants continue to travel a long distance in this COVID-19 crisis, Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday appealed to state governments to immediately lift food grains and pulses from the godowns and distribute them for free within a fortnight to 8 crore migrants who neither have centre nor state ration card.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced distribution of 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses free-of-cost every month over the next three months to the 80 crore poor across the country to deal with the economic impact of the lockdown amid coronavirus outbreak.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to ensure free distribution of food grains to the hungry poor of the country instead of allowing it to rot in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns. "Give it to the hungry poor instead of it (grains) going down the drain," a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said in an o...