This news will be helpful to you if you are one of the 80 crore people who currently possess a ration card. The Central Government’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) has expanded the programme that offers free rations to the underprivileged. This programme will be extended for an additional five years by the government. This provides 5 kg of free food items every month to the impoverished. PM Modi presided over the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, during which this decision regarding ration card was made.
Ration Card Update: The benefit is available through December 31, 2028.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur announced during the cabinet meeting that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) has been extended for another five years, starting on January 1, 2024. This programme was formerly extended to December 31, 2023. According to the minister, the programme will cost roughly Rs 11.8 lakh crore over the following five years. Let us inform you that PMGKAY was launched in 2020 as a worldwide pandemic relief initiative.
At the election rally, it was declared that
the programme would continue, giving each beneficiary 5 kg of free food grains each month in addition to 5 kg of subsidised food goods under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). The PMGKAY Free Grain Guarantee Scheme was brought under the NFSA in December 2022 after being extended multiple times. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently declared that the free food grain programme would be extended for an additional five years during an electoral rally in Chhattisgarh.
Ration Card: Benefits for residents of 36 states and union territories:
The NFSA provides coverage for residents of 36 states and union territories. A ‘New Year’s present to the country’s disadvantaged’, according to government authorities, is the cabinet’s decision. The recipients will not be required to pay for the grains. During the Covid epidemic in 2020, PMGKAY was first introduced. This allows the government to give anyone who meets the NFSA quota 5 kg of food grains for free.
Currently, recipients of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) receive
food grains at a cost of Rs 1-3 kg. Each month, 5 kg of food grains are sent to low-income families as part of this programme. Families under the Antodya Anna Yojana (AAY) receive 35 kg of grains each month.
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