{"id":219734,"date":"2022-12-24T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219734"},"modified":"2022-12-24T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:16:28","slug":"centre-to-provide-free-ration-to-poor-people-for-one-year-under-food-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-to-provide-free-ration-to-poor-people-for-one-year-under-food-security-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to provide free ration to poor people for one year under food security law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cCentre to provide free ration to poor people for one year under food security law\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 24th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decided to provide a free ration to 81.35 crore poor people under the National Food Security Act(NFSA) for one year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is presently being given under the National Food Security Act(NFSA)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the NFSA, the government currently provides 5kg of food grains per person per month at \u20b92-3 per kg. The families covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana(AAY) get 35 kg of food grains per month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rice is given to poor persons under the NFSA at \u20b93 per kg and wheat at \u20b92 per kg.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is being changed now?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one year, the Central Government will bear the entire burden of providing free food grains under NFSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beneficiaries under NFSA will not have to pay a single rupee to get food grains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is expected to cost the government around Rs 2 lakh crore yearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What about Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has decided not to extend the free ration scheme Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) which ends on December 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the PMGKAY, 5kg of food grains per person per month is provided free to 81.35 crore beneficiaries covered under the NFSA. This is over and above the monthly distribution of highly subsidized food grains under the NFSA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCentre to provide free ration to poor people for one year under food security law\u201d published in The Hindu on 24th December 2022 What is the News? The Government of India has decided to provide a free ration to 81.35 crore poor people under the National Food&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-to-provide-free-ration-to-poor-people-for-one-year-under-food-security-law\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre to provide free ration to poor people for one year under food security law<\/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":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-219734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701706363},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219734","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=219734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}