{"id":208642,"date":"2022-09-29T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208642"},"modified":"2022-09-29T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:41:30","slug":"centre-extends-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-ann-yojana-pmgkay-for-another-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-extends-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-ann-yojana-pmgkay-for-another-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre extends Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for another three months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Centre extends Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for another three months<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 28th September 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union Cabinet has approved the extension for the\u00a0 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY-Phase VII) for a further\u00a0 period of 3 months i.e. October to December 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana(PMGKAY) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was launched in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a part of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-package-insurance-scheme-for-health-workers-fighting-covid-19\/\"><b>Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package(PMGKP<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help the poor fight the battle against Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Under this welfare scheme, 5 kg of food grain per person per month is provided free of cost for all the beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) [Antodaya Anna Yojana &amp; Priority Households] including those covered under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scheme has provided food security to the poor, needy and vulnerable households\/beneficiaries so that they do not suffer on account of the non-availability of adequate food grains. Effectively it has doubled the quantity of monthly foodgrains entitlements being normally delivered to beneficiaries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre extends Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for another three months\u201d published in PIB on 28th September 2022 What is the News? Union Cabinet has approved the extension for the\u00a0 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY-Phase VII) for a further\u00a0 period of 3 months&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-extends-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-ann-yojana-pmgkay-for-another-three-months\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre extends Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for another three months<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-208642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}