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“This launch of meals subsidy is about 140% of the meals subsidy launched throughout 2020-21 and about 267 per cent of the meals subsidy launched throughout 2019-20,” an official assertion mentioned.
The subsidy has been launched for procurement operations below MSP (minimal help value) and seamless distribution of foodgrains below the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) and Nationwide Meals Safety Act 2013 (NFSA).
Within the final fiscal, the division spent 99.83 per cent of its expenditure by incurring Rs 3,04,361 crores towards internet allocation of Rs 3,04,879 crore.
The division “all the time seems to be ahead to make sure that the advantages of its schemes attain out to numerous weak sections of the society,” the assertion mentioned.
On this path, throughout monetary yr 2021-22, the division launched about Rs 24,000 crore for the advantage of Scheduled Castes, Rs 12,000 crore for Scheduled Tribes, and greater than Rs 400 crore for the North Japanese Area.
So as to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre launched extra foodgrain freed from price at 5 kg per individual per thirty days to greater than 80 crore Nationwide Meals Safety Act (NFSA) beneficiaries below Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY), which is over and above their entitlement of foodgrain below the NFSA.
This extra allocation has been made in 5 phases so removed from April 2020 to March 2022.
“Since inception, a complete of 758 lakh tonnes of foodgrain has been allotted below the scheme with monetary implication of Rs 2.60 lakh crore. PMGKAY has now been prolonged until September, 2022, which is able to contain an extra allocation of 244 lakh tonnes of foodgrain with extra monetary implication of about Rs 80,851 crore,” the assertion mentioned.
