Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) Chairman S Mahendra Dev in an interview with PTI further said the ongoing West Asi...

"UP, Bihar, and Rajasthan have been contributing much less than they could have. We are targeting total wheat procurement of 310 lakh tonne...

These two food subsidy schemes have been subsumed as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for effective and uniform implementat...

“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 ...

The government is implementing scheme to supply free foodgrains to poor under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) with expendit...

The cabinet Friday decided to provide free foodgrain to nearly 814 million eligible beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFS...

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 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...

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...

Briefing reporters about the decisions taken by the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Information and Broadcasting Mini...

The state government had distributed 72 lakh quintals of free grains to 68 lakh NFSA families in April and May costing Rs 802 crore at the ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gently told the Supreme Court, which recently directed the government to distribute foodgrains free to the po...

With govt due to file response in SC to suggestions of distributing free foodgrains to the poor, an empowered Cabinet committee decided to ...