Inefficient PDS deprived poor since Independence: PM Modi
The Hindu
No person remains hungry or without food due to PM-GKAY food security scheme, says PM
Inefficiency in delivery and corruption marked the public distribution system since Independence, depriving the poor of free ration in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during his virtual interaction with beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) in Gujarat. He said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the PM-GKAY food security scheme helped crores of poor people as the government provided free food grains worth ₹2 lakh crore to almost 80 crore people since the lockdown was imposed in 2020. In Gujarat, he said, almost 3.5 crore people benefited from the scheme. The PM claimed that no person remained hungry or without food due to the scheme under which free ration was given to everyone who needed it.
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