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Volume IconWill free food grain scheme affect Centre's fiscal planning?

The pandemic made the govt to launch Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana to provide free food grains to the poor. It has now been scrapped. What will be its impact?

ImageTushar Verma New Delhi
People pick up food from a collection point of non governmental organization (NGO) Vidya Dham Samiti in Banda District, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Bloomberg

Photo: Bloomberg

If note ban put millions in the bank queues, pandemic forced many more to line up at railway stations and bus terminals. With jobs gone, they had no option but to return home. Struggle to feed their families followed. It was then that the government had launched Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana to provide free food grain. And after about two years, the scheme has now been scrapped. But the government has made PDS free for one year. So what will be its impact? Will it anyway affect the government’s fiscal planning? This podcast has the answer. 

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First Published: Jan 03 2023 | 7:00 AM IST