NFSA

Weed out ineligible PMGKAY beneficiaries by Sept 30, states told

The Centre has asked states to weed out ineligible PMGKAY beneficiaries by Sept 30 to improve targeting under the free…

September 9, 2025 20:21 IST

Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, PMGKAY, economy, agriculture

Govt reviewing free-grains scheme to cut costs

The Centre is reviewing the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana to cut subsidy costs by removing ineligible beneficiaries. States…

August 31, 2025 20:04 IST

KYC, NFSA, Economy, PMGKAY, FPS, ONORC, PDS, ration card

e-KYC drive for 800 million NFSA beneficiaries to to be completed soon

Some of the states where e-KYCs authentication is slow are Maharashtra (14%), Delhi (1%), Jharkhand (26%), Gujarat (46%) and Haryana…

November 21, 2024 03:15 IST

free food grains, nfsa, free food, ration shop, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana

Govt names free grain scheme as ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana’

The Centre last year decided to provide foodgrain free to states under NFSA for one year beginning January.

January 12, 2023 04:45 IST

Modi’s free ration scheme for poor gets 3-month extension, eyes 80 crore beneficiaries; to cost this much

The free ration scheme is a part of the pro-poor PM Garib Kalyan package, launched for the period April-November 2020.

Updated: September 28, 2022 17:38 IST

CCEA approves extra PDS grain for 3 non-NFSA states

The government today approved extra allocation of 62,307 tonnes of foodgrains to three states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Nagaland,…

June 1, 2016 18:07 IST

Full NFSA roll-out not in this fiscal

The countrywide roll-out of the much-touted National Food Security Act (NFSA) seems unlikely even this fiscal, with a clutch of…

July 8, 2015 01:18 IST

Paper asks govt not to hurry food security process

Even as majority of states are yet to roll out the National Food Security Act (NFSA)…

Updated: March 28, 2015 01:25 IST

Govt sets April deadline for rollout of food law

States missing deadline to buy foodgrains for APL families at MSP

December 11, 2014 00:26 IST

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