“Over the medium term, the government is likely to forgo revenues from its subsidised food sales (0.05% of GDP on an annualised basis). As ...

During election campaigns in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a significant announcement: the government ...

For smooth implementation, general managers of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have been asked to visit three ration shops every day in...

The food subsidy bill for 2022-23 will climb by ₹1.3 lakh crore. However, given tax revenue buoyancy, the Centre could close the year with ...

Launched as a Covid relief measure in March 2020, the scheme offers 5 kg of wheat or rice free of cost per person per month. This is in add...

The scheme offers 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of whole chana free of cost per person per month. This is in addition to subsidised ration...

The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) was launched in March 2020 to ease the hardships faced by poor people in the face of ...

Govt on Saturday extended free foodgrain scheme PMGKAY for another six months till September 2022, announced Food Minister Piyush Goyal.

The food grain under Phase V would entail an estimated food subsidy of Rs 53344.52 crore, said the department of Food and Public Distributi...

The Centre spent Rs 1,33,972 crore last year to implement the PMGKAY programme and will incur expenditure of another Rs 93,869 crore this y...

This means that till November 2021, more than 80 crore people will continue to get decided quantity of free foodgrain every month.

In April, the Centre had announced distribution of free foodgrains for the months of May and June under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann...

In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to the poor, the government has decided to provide free food grains to about 80 cror...

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...

Responsibility of identification of beneficiaries under this scheme was entrusted with states, which initially indicated about 2.8 crore to...

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

The government pays a subsidy of about Rs 1.70 lakh crore annually for cheap grains to 810 million ration card holders under the National F...