{"id":13609,"date":"2020-07-09T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:01:48","slug":"states-uts-can-complete-distribution-of-remaining-free-food-grains-and-whole-gram-allocated-under-atma-nirbhar-bharat-scheme-by-31st-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=13609","title":{"rendered":"States\/UTs can complete distribution of remaining free food grains and whole gram allocated under Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme by 31st August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
Press Information Bureau
\nGovernment of India
\nMinistry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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States\/UTs can complete distribution of remaining free food grains and whole gram allocated under Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme by 31st August 2020<\/p>\n

Ministry is trying to onboard all remaining States\/UTs for One Nation-One Ration Card by January 2021: Shri Ram Vilas Paswan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today briefed the media through video conferencing about the progress of Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana and Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. Shri Paswan welcomed the decision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for the extension of PMGKAY for five more months till November 2020.He said, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi started the two biggest food grains distribution scheme-PMGKAY and ANBA for poor and needy persons, so that no one sleeps hungry at the time of Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0Shri Paswan also briefed media about the cabinet decision to allow extra time period for distribution of balance of allocatedfree food grains to beneficiaries of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan till 31st<\/sup>\u00a0August 2020.Shri Paswan said that the implementation of these two schemes will ameliorate the hardships faced by the poor and needy due to economic disruption caused by Covid-19 outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n

Food grain distribution to migrant labourers: (Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking about extension of the distribution of ANBA free food grains till 31st<\/sup>\u00a0August, 2020, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan said that the scheme was launched on 15th<\/sup>\u00a0May 2020 and the identification process of genuine beneficiaries took some time, therefore, distribution period of the balance of already lifted 6.39 LMT food grains with the states\/UTs has been extended till 31st<\/sup>\u00a0August 2020. He said that now States\/UTs can complete distribution of balance of allocated free food grains and whole gramunder ANB by 31st<\/sup>\u00a0August 2020.<\/p>\n

Under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Package, 5kg of free food grains per person and 1 kg of free whole gram per family has been distributed to migrant labourers, stranded and needy families, who are not covered under NFSA or State scheme PDS cards.<\/p>\n

The states and UTs have lifted 6.39 LMT of food grains. States and UTs have distributed 2,32,433 MT of food grains to 2.24 crore beneficiaries in May and to 2.25 crore beneficiaries in June,2020.He informed that around 33,620 MT whole gram have been dispatched to the states and UTs. A total 32,968 MT whole gram has been lifted by various States and UTs, out of which10,645 MT has been distributed.<\/p>\n

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Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution States\/UTs can complete distribution of remaining free food grains and whole gram allocated under Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme by 31st August 2020 Ministry is trying to onboard all remaining States\/UTs for One Nation-One Ration Card by January 2021: Shri Ram Vilas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13610,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}