ad disburses mr scheme extreme impact tight house including amnesty relief fm cess indias question lockdown sales settles state wave minister paper withdraw kalyan real safety salaries members establishments lives

Articles for Pmgky

PM Modi's Garib Kalyan: Why Rahul Gandhi is Wrong in Saying 'Poverty is a State of Mind' - News18
1 year, 5 months ago

PM Modi's Garib Kalyan: Why Rahul Gandhi is Wrong in Saying 'Poverty is a State of Mind' - News18

News 18  

Speaking at a function in Allahabad in 2013, Rahul Gandhi stirred the hornet’s nest by dismissing poverty as just “a state of mind.” Measuring his words carefully has never been a strong suit of the Gandhi scion. Coming back to the issue of poverty, back in 2013, hailing the role of self-help groups, the then Congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi …

Food India Poverty Workers Gandhi Poor Urban Areas
A welcome move: The Hindu Editorial on the free grains scheme under food security law
2 years ago

A welcome move: The Hindu Editorial on the free grains scheme under food security law

The Hindu  

The Government has decided not to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana,, a scheme that ran between April 2020 to December 2022, and provided additional allocation of food grains, i.e., rice or wheat from the central pool at five kilograms a month free of cost to beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act. While discontinuing the scheme, the …

States Food Security Scheme Food Grains Nfsa Grains Free Ration
India eradicates ‘extreme poverty’ via PMGKY: IMF paper
2 years, 9 months ago

India eradicates ‘extreme poverty’ via PMGKY: IMF paper

The Hindu  

A new IMF paper released on Tuesday, titled ‘Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India’ says that ‘extreme poverty was maintained below 1% in 2020 due to Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana. Dismissing the NSS 2017-18 consumer expenditure survey as 'ill-fated', this paper claims food subsidies have reduced poverty on a consistent basis since the enactment of the Food …

Food India Poverty Data Indian Consumption Paper
Government’s ad hoc response to the migrant crisis did not take into account the reality of their lives
3 years, 5 months ago

Government’s ad hoc response to the migrant crisis did not take into account the reality of their lives

The Hindu  

THE COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis. There are several challenges under the PDS, for instance, initially Bihar failed to disburse pulses to the marginalised communities targeted to be covered under PMGKY 2020 primarily because of unresolved issues between Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. Firms with more than …

India Welfare Social Bihar States Indian Workers
India Needs a Second Wave of Relief Measures: Jean Drèze Explains
3 years, 8 months ago

India Needs a Second Wave of Relief Measures: Jean Drèze Explains

The Quint  

A national relief package may seem unnecessary when lockdowns are localised. When restrictions were introduced in Maharashtra, migrant workers from Bihar and Jharkhand started leaving en masse, worsening the livelihood crisis in those states. Local economies in India are closely interconnected, and multiple local lockdowns are bound to have crippling effects on the economy as a whole. By way of …

Relief Measures Second Wave
Coronavirus lockdown | Fifth tranche of economic package focusses on reforms, says Nirmala Sitharaman
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown | Fifth tranche of economic package focusses on reforms, says Nirmala Sitharaman

The Hindu  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said reforms will be the focus of the fifth and final tranche of economic stimulus package to deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Further, 0.50 per cent if milestones are achieved in at least three out of four reform areas.” Stimulus package includes ₹8 lakh cr liquidity measures by RBI Ms. …

Coronavirus States Reforms Economic Companies Migrant Workers Stimulus
Coronavirus Impact: 12 lakh EPFO members withdraw Rs 3,360 cr retirement savings during lockdown, says FM
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus Impact: 12 lakh EPFO members withdraw Rs 3,360 cr retirement savings during lockdown, says FM

Firstpost  

The EPFO, under the Union labour and employment ministry, has settled a total of 12 lakh claims under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana package. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said around 12 lakh members of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation withdrew Rs 3,360 crore retirement savings during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Earlier in March, Labour Minister Santosh …

Welfare Construction Workers Building Union Crore Minister
Report card: Modi government's fight against black money
6 years, 5 months ago

Report card: Modi government's fight against black money

India Today  

Fight against black money was one of the key manifesto promises of the BJP for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In the last four years, the Narendra Modi government has taken a series of steps to check black money generation. Here is a report card of what all the government has done to combat black money as it prepares for 2019 …

India Tax Money Black Demonetisation Indian Black Money