Govt announces additional free food grains for NFSA beneficiaries
New; Delhi, April 23, 2021: The Union government has decided to allocate free-of-cost food grains – 5 Kg per person per month to nearly 80 Crore beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) for next two months.
This will be over and above NFSA food grains for the month of May and June 2021 and will be on the same pattern as the earlier “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY)” .
Under this special scheme (PMGKAY), around 80 Crore NFSA beneficiaries covered under both categories of NFSA, namely Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Priority Householders (PHH), will be 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 entitlements under NFSA.
Government of India will bear full expenditure of over ₹ 26,000 Crore on account of cost of food grains, intrastate transportation etc. as part of Central assistance to States/UTs.
