FM Announces PM Garib Kalyan Scheme

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 1.7 lakh crore financial package to tackle COVID-19. 

Among this package, the first one for food security, called Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, where 80 crores poor of our population (2/3rds of population), each one will get 5 kg, each month, for the next 3 months, in addition to the 5 kgs they already take via PDS of wheat or rice. Besides, 1 kg of pulse (regional preferences) will be given per household. This can be taken in two installments.