The PM Garib Kalyan Yojana was initially started during the start of the Covid pandemic, where ration card holders were entitled to receive...

Continuing efficiency gains in expenditure can lead to outsized results. The government has made considerable progress by subsuming the fre...

In one fell swoop, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration has addressed the fiscal pinch caused by the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan...

Five-kilogram (kg) food grain per person to priority household beneficiaries (also called general category) and 35 kg per household to Anty...

Under the PM-GKAY scheme, the government is providing 5 kg food grain per person per month free of cost to 80 crore people covered by the N...

Goyal said in Lok Sabha that the technology driven initiative was conceptualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taking into account the p...

The scheme was launched in March 2020. Under PMGKAY, the Centre provides five kg rice or wheat free of cost to every poor person every mont...

Veteran TMC MP Sougata Roy told reporters that he would soon write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking an extension of the scheme. Roy...

Kejriwal's remarks came a day after Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the Centre had no proposal to extend distribution of free ration t...

The Central Government has extended the PMGKAY for five months i.e. July-November 2021 and further allocation of 198.79 LMT food grains has...

Speaking at a virtual press conference, Sambit Patra also claimed that there is zero Aadhaar card authentication in Delhi against the natio...

“With fresh procurement of wheat in full swing and purchase of rice still going on, we will get more stocks. The stock is enough to meet an...

“We can’t say anything at this point of time. But under the current circumstances, the outlook of central government is quite liberal and p...

He said that FCI distributes 47.5 million tonnes of food grains every year to 800 million poor people at subsidised rates under national fo...

Free grain under the government’s Atmanirbhar scheme for migrant labourers has reached only 31% of the intended beneficiaries, as several s...

"The Prime Minister had announced that this scheme will be extended and the same has been approved by the Cabinet today," Information and B...

FCI in a statement stated that as part of the Economic Measures (Atma Nirbhar Bharat), Government of India has allocated free food grain fo...