{"id":90617,"date":"2020-08-06T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16749"},"modified":"2020-08-06T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:44:20","slug":"pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Union Food Ministry has said that the free food grains under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana were distributed to up to 75 crore beneficiaries during April-June period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana: <\/strong>It was announced as part of the relief package during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To ensure sufficient food for the poor and needy during the coronavirus crisis.<\/li><li><strong>Ministry involved<\/strong>: The program is operated by the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.<\/li><li><strong>Features: <\/strong>Under the scheme, about 81 Crore National Food Security Act(NFSA) beneficiaries are being provided with an additional quota of free-of-cost foodgrains (Rice\/Wheat) at a scale of 5 Kg per person per month over and above their regular monthly entitlement.<\/li><li><strong>Duration: <\/strong>The scheme was to run for three months from April to June,2020.However, it has now been extended till November 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Food Ministry has said that the free food grains under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana were distributed to up to 75 crore beneficiaries during April-June period. Facts: Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana: It was announced as part of the relief package during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim: To ensure sufficient food for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7844],"class_list":["post-90617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700786657,"cached_date":1702181442},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90617","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}