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The world's largest food
scheme provided

food security

PM Garib Kalyan

Anna Yojana

When the poor and underprivileged families were
facing an economic crisis as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic, the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna
Yojana was launched to help them. Additional free
food grains were distributed through this scheme, with
approximately 80 crore beneficiaries included in the
Food Security Act, until December 2022. In addition to
rice and wheat, pulses, gramme, and soap were made
available in the interim. The International Monetary
Fund praised the scheme, saying that it continued
to provide basic services to the weaker sections of
society even during the pandemic, preventing the level
of extreme poverty from rising.
Under the National Food Security Act, free food
grains are being distributed to priority families and
Antyodaya Anna Yojana beneficiaries for a period of
one year beginning January 1, 2023.

n In seven phases, 1121 million metric tonnes of food grains The scheme cost the central government
were distributed. `3.91 lakh crore
n The central government will spend more than Rs 2 lakh
crore on free food grain distribution in 2023.

LPG connection may have become a part strong new India is being built. A system of a
of everyone's daily life today, but there was a safe, self-respecting, and self-reliant India is
time when it used to be a 'status symbol' of being prepared through public participation
a certain class. Ujjwala Yojana has reached by taking schemes of public interest to
out to all sections of society. Among the the last person, which is making life easier
more than 9.60 crore beneficiaries of the and increasing the standard of living of the
scheme, there are more than 3 crore SC-ST people. The path of a safe environment
categories i.e. about 35 percent. and self-reliance through social schemes is
not limited to providing loans only through
The new path of self-reliance various schemes, but the thinking of the
through security central government is to create such an
environment in every family and society of
Father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi had
shown a new path to the country with the the country, where no person is left struggling
thoughts of truth, non-violence, and self- only for basic needs.
reliance along with Satyagraha, following In such a situation empowering citizens is
the same path, a safe, clean, prosperous, and the top priority. This is the reason why in his
first address from the ramparts of the Red

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