Union Budget 2023: What is PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana? Know its benefits for ration card holders
The budget for the years 2023–2024 was presented to the Lok Sabha today by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Regarding the middle class, farmers, and the underprivileged, numerous significant pronouncements have been made. The impoverished have received the most assistance from the general budget. The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana has been extended for an additional year, according to the finance minister. Let’s take a look at what is the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.
PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana
The Pradhan Mantri The Narendra Modi administration unveiled the Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana in March 2020, amid the first statewide lockdown brought on by COVID-19. The PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, which would give free food grains to the nation's underprivileged, will cost Rs 2 lakh crore, according to the Modi administration. She claimed that during the Corona pandemic, we prevented anyone from going to bed hungry by distributing food to 80 crore needy people. Families in priority categories and Antyodaya will receive free food grains.
Benefits for the people under PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana
Five kilogrammes of food grains are given away each month to all cardholders free of charge as part of the Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana. According to the district supply officer, wheat and rice have been given thus far. Additionally, millet has now arrived. The card holders will also get access to a set amount of millet. According to the budget statement, qualified families will receive assistance for a full year.
