Govt to provide free food grains to the poor under PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana in May and June

New Delhi: Government of India to provide free foodgrains under PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana for May & June 2021. 5 kg free food grains to be provided to around 80 crore beneficiaries. Government of India would spend more than Rs 26,000 crore on this initiative.

In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to the poor, Government of India has decided to provide free food-grains to 80 crore beneficiaries, on the same pattern as last year’s PM Garib Kalyan Yojana.

PM Narendra Modi stressed that it is important that the poor of the country have nutritional support when the country is facing the second wave of corona virus.

This is a developing story.