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150 years ago when the British tried to make sepoys use animal-based fats, there was a widespread revolt.
Today, when greedy temple scum are betraying the poor and stupid lower-caste jahils who come to them for spiritual guidance by giving them gau mata prasads, you get people like this shrieking and screaming about sickularism and blaming it on Christians. How times have changed!
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So the CM of the state government hand prepared the gau mata prasas, is that what you're saying? Stop lying to yourself, you and I both know some vile corrupt looter with Chaturvedi as his surname is responsible for this.
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NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Reuters) - India will spend 11.8 trillion rupees ($141.63 billion) to extend its free food grains program for the next five years, a federal minister said on Wednesday, but the government remains confident of meeting its fiscal deficit target.
The scheme is aimed at ensuring food and nutrition security for 813.5 million people, Information Minister Anurag Thakur told the media after a federal cabinet meeting.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Nov. 4 announced his government would extend the welfare scheme, which was due to end in December, by five years.
The announcement, which came ahead of general elections due early next year, was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday.
"Free food grains will strengthen food security and mitigate any financial hardship of the poor and vulnerable sections of the population," the government said in a statement.
Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth, at a separate event, said the government is confident of meeting its fiscal deficit target for the current financial year despite higher spending on the free food grain scheme.
The government aims to cut fiscal deficit to 5.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) for the year ending March 31.
Seth added that India is committed to lowering the fiscal deficit to 4.5% of GDP by 2025/26.
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Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)
The Central Government, under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) has decided to continue to provide free food grains to about 81.35 crore beneficiaries (i.e. Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households and Priority Households (PHH) beneficiaries) for a period of next five years with effect from 1st January, 2024, as per their entitlement (i.e. 35 kg of food grains per AAY household per month and 5 kg of food grains per person per month in case of Priority Household).The decision has been taken keeping in view welfare of the beneficiaries and in order to strengthen the provisions of NFSA, 2013 in terms of accessibility, affordability and availability of food grains for the poor and to maintain uniformity across the States.
The annual food subsidy borne by Government of India towards distribution of food grains to AAY households and PHH beneficiaries, Other Welfare Schemes and Tide Over is to the tune of Rs. 2.13 lakh crore. Assuming growth in Economic cost, the Central Government will spend approx Rs11.80 lakh crore during the period of next five years as food subsidy under PMGKAY, to remove the financial burden of the poor and the poorest of the poor.
The provision of free food grains under PMGKAY for next five years with effect from 1 st January 2024 reflects the long-term commitment and vision of the Government for addressing National Food and Nutrition Security.
Provisions of free food grains shall mitigate any financial hardship of the affected strata of society in a sustainable manner and ensure long term pricing strategy with zero cost to the beneficiaries which is vital for effective penetration of the Public Distribution System.
Earlier, the Central Government, had decided to provide food grains free of cost to beneficiaries i.e. AAY households and PHH beneficiaries, for a period of one year beginning from 1st January 2023 under the PMGKAY.
Outreach to NFSA Beneficiaries
- Department has shared Banners/Hoarding creatives from time to time in Hindi and 10 regional languages with all States/UTs for display at all FPSs, godowns and other places of PDS operations.
- For Inter-Ministerial collaboration with (Ministry of Post, Ministry of Railways, MoPNG, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is being done.
- The concerned ministries have started using the creatives on social media. The creatives have witnessed more than 5 million impressions and views on various social media channels.
- MoPNG has installed PMGKAY banners/hoardings at 1000 fuel retail outlets.
- Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizers has shared a list of 1.08 Lakh Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samridhi Kendras (PMKSKs) where the creatives are planned to be played/displayed.
- Work of installation of Tin Plates at ~5.4 Lakh FPSs is being planned.
- The Department also gives wide publicity about PM-GKAY through regular press releases and through updates on its Social Media handles (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Koo).
PMGKAY (During Covid-19 Pandemic)
In the wake of economic disruptions caused by the unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the Government in March 2020 had announced the distribution of additional free-of-cost foodgrains (Rice/Wheat) to about 80 Crore National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries at the scale of 5 Kg per person per month under the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), over and above the regular monthly NFSA foodgrains i.e. regular entitlements of their ration cards. Thereby, effectively doubling the quantity of monthly foodgrains being normally delivered to the NFSA households, so that the poor, needy and the vulnerable households/beneficiaries do not suffer on account of non-availability of adequate foodgrains during the times of economic crisis.Starting from April 2020, this scheme has been implemented in 7 phases to ensure food security of NFSA beneficiaries in the country. Phase-wise details are as follows:
Beneficiary Awareness about PMGKAY Foodgrains
Department has shared Banners/Hoarding creatives from time to time (June 2020 and Dec 2021) in Hindi and 10 regional languages, namely - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odiya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu with all States/UTs for display at all FPSs, godowns and other places of PDS operations. Additionally, the Department has also sought the cooperation of some Central Ministries/Departments such as Indian Railways, D/o Posts, M/o PNG, M/o I&B to display these banners at strategic locations across the country such as Petrol pumps/ CNG stations, Post offices, Railway stations and other prominent places. The Department also gives wide publicity about PMGKAY through regular press releases and through updates on its Social Media handles (Twitter & YouTube).Success Story of PMGKAY Implementation:
- More than 75 crore beneficiaries have received foodgrains every month during implementation of PMGKAY in FY 2020-21, 2021-22. Similar distribution pattern is expected in the foodgrains distribution under PMGKAY implementing during FY 2022-23.
- Based on concurrent evaluation reports received from Monitoring Institutes (MIs) from 30 States/UTs, 98% of the surveyed households reported to receive their full entitlement under PMGKAY.
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) Scheme - Details
Latest Update:Budget 2024-25: Three crore more houses will be provided under the PM Awas Yojana in rural and urban areas. Under the PM Awas Yojana Urban 2.0, the housing needs of 1 crore urban middle-class and poor families will be addressed with an investment of Rs.10 lakh crore. This will include the central assistance of Rs.2.2 lakh crore in the next 5 years.
Budget 2023-24: In the Budget 2023, the outlay for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana was enhanced by 66% to over Rs.79,000 crore.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a social welfare flagship programme of the Indian Government. It was launched in 2015 to provide pucca houses to all eligible beneficiaries in the urban and rural areas of the country.
What is Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana?
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) was launched with the aim to provide housing at an affordable price to the weaker sections of the society, lower income group people, urban poor, and rural poor. The Yojana involves a construction of around 20 million houses at an affordable price. In the Budget 2023, the outlay for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana was enhanced by 66% to over Rs.79,000 crore. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana has two components:- Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban (PMAY-U)
- Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G)
- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which aims at reducing open defecation by constructing in-house toilets and community-owned toilets and aims to maintain cleanliness around the streets, roads, and houses
- Saubhagya Yojana which aims at providing electricity connection
- Ujjwala Yojana which aims at providing LPG Gas connection
- Accessibility of pure drinking water
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana which aims at opening a zero balance account and spreading banking facilities to each and every person in the society.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban (PMAY-U)
PMAY-U focuses on providing affordable houses to providing houses to all eligible families/ beneficiaries not having a pucca house in cities and towns. All houses under the PMAY-U will have basic amenities, such as water supply, kitchen, electricity and toilet.This scheme promotes women empowerment by providing the house/ land ownership in name of the female member or in joint names. Under this scheme, preference is given to senior citizens, differently abled persons, SCs, STs, Other Backward Classes (OBCs), single women, transgender, minority, other weaker and vulnerable sections of the society.
In August 2022, the Union Cabinet approved for the continuation of PMAY-U up to 31 December 2024. As of 15 July 2024, 118.64 lakh houses are sanctioned and 84.7 lakh houses are completed under this scheme.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G)
PMAY-G focuses on providing pucca houses to all households living in kutcha houses or all houseless people in rural areas. This scheme combines with other Government schemes to provide basic amenities to the houses, such as electricity, drinking water, clean and efficient cooking fuel, toilet, treatment of solid and liquid waste etc.Under this scheme, cost of unit assistance will be shared between the Central and State Government in the ratio 60:40 in plain areas and 90:10 for North Eastern states, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir. As of 15 July 2024, 2 crore 94 lakh houses are sanctioned and 2 crore 63 lakh houses are completed under this scheme.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) Scheme - Details
PMAY - Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana aims to provide housing at an affordable price to the weaker sections of the society. Read on to know about PM Awas Yojana.
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Modi 3.0 approves 3 cr more houses under PM Awas Yojana in rural & urban India
Two crore of these could come up in rural areas. Plan to provide relief on interest charged on home loans to eligible beneficiaries in urban areas in the works.
New Delhi: The newly formed Union Cabinet Monday approved the proposal to sanction three crore houses in rural and urban areas under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in what was one of the first major decisions of the NDA government in its third term.The PMAY, in the last 10 years, has ensured 4.21 crore houses for eligible economically poor families, according to the latest government figures.
“It has been decided in the Cabinet meeting today to provide assistance to 3 crore additional rural and urban households for the construction of houses to meet the housing requirements arising out of the increase in the number of eligible families,” read the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Monday.
Houses constructed under PMAY come with basic amenities such as toilets, LPG connection, electricity connection, functional water tap connection, etc., facilitated under other central and state schemes, said the PMO statement.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, it added, has been working on a plan to bridge the housing gaps in rural and urban areas from last year.
Though the Centre did not give a break-up of the number of houses in rural and urban areas, it will likely provide financial assistance to two crore families in rural areas for houses, according to the interim budget this year.
The Union housing and urban affairs ministry — the nodal ministry for implementing PMAY-Urban — is also working on a plan to provide relief on home loans to eligible beneficiaries in urban areas.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the government campaigned on affordable housing to connect with poor people in rural areas and the middle-class segment in cities.
Modi, in his Independence Day speech last year, announced that the government was planning a scheme to provide relief on the interest charged on home loans for middle-class families in urban areas. The PM, speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, said, “Middle-class families are dreaming of their own house. We are coming up with a plan for that also for the coming few years… family members who live in cities but live in rented houses, live in slums, live in chawls, unauthorised colonies (will be covered). We have decided to help (people save) lakhs of rupees by giving relief in the interest of the loan they will take from the bank.”
Presenting the 2024-25 interim budget in February this year, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman first announced the decision to construct two crore additional houses in rural areas. “Despite the challenges due to COVID, implementation of PMAY-G continued and we are close to achieving the target of three crore houses. Two crore more houses will be taken up in the next five years to meet the requirement arising from (an) increase in the number of families,” she said at the time.
Under PMAY-Gramin (PMAY-G), which ended on March 31 this year, 2.95 crore rural beneficiaries have received financial assistance to build houses, and the rural development ministry’s dashboard on the scheme showed 2.62 crore of these houses are complete. On the other hand, 1.19 crore houses have been sanctioned under PMAY-Urban, according to the latest government figures.
Last year, the Modi government also decided to sanction five lakh additional houses to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) under the Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-JANMAN), launched in November 2023.
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Modi 3.0 approves 3 cr more houses under PM Awas Yojana in rural & urban India
Two crore of these could come up in rural areas. Plan to provide relief on interest charged on home loans to eligible beneficiaries in urban areas in the works.
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)-Urban 2.0 Scheme: Eligibility to apply, beneficiaries, interest subsidy for homebuyers
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0 (PMAY-U 2.0) is a government initiative aimed at providing financial assistance to middle-class and urban impoverished families.
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Govt Building Homes That Poor Do Not Want
Residents walk past a block of state-funded flats for slum dwellers in the western Indian city of Surat. Slum dwellers are reluctant to move to the houses built by the government due to lack of...
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PM Awas Yojana: More than 29.5 m rural houses will be built by March
The Narendra Modi-led government is set to surpass the construction of 37 million rural houses by March, compared to about 32 million under the previous Indira Awas Yojana over 29 years, showcasing a significant rural development initiative. Under the PM Awas Yojana (Gramin), the government aims...
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana 2024
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) 2024 continues its venture to provide low priced housing for all with the aid of 2022, now extending efforts to make certain housing for extra beneficiaries. This initiative specializes in economically weaker sections, low-profits agencies, and middle-profits...
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a credit-linked subsidy scheme by the Government of India to facilitate access to affordable housing for the low and moderate-income residents of the country.
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Context: In the first Cabinet meeting of the third term, the PM approved assistance for constructing three crore houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). Of the 3 crore houses, two crore will be built under PMAY-Gramin and one crore under PMAY-Urban. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)
• The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is a flagship housing scheme (centrally sponsored) launched by the Government of India in 2015 to provide affordable housing to the urban and rural poor.
• To provide pucca (permanent) houses with basic amenities to all houseless households and those living in kutcha (temporary) and dilapidated houses in rural areas.
• Target Beneficiaries: Households with an annual income of up to Rs. 3 lakh (based on SECC 2011).
• Unit Assistance: Financial assistance of Rs. 1.20 lakh in plain areas and Rs. 1.30 lakh in hilly/difficult areas is provided for the construction of a house.
• The scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development and is funded by the central and state governments in a 60:40 ratio for most states (90:10 for special category states; 100% for UTs).
• To provide affordable housing to the urban poor, including slum dwellers.
• Target Beneficiaries: Households with an annual income of up to Rs. 3 lakh (Economically Weaker Sections, or EWS) and Rs. 3-6 lakh (Low-Income Groups, or LIG).
• Unit Assistance: Central assistance of Rs. 1.5 lakh for EWS and Rs. 1 lakh for LIG is provided, along with additional benefits like interest subsidies on home loans.
• The scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and is funded by the central and state governments in a 60:40 ratio for most states.
• In-situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR);
• Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) – interest subsidies on home loans.
• Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) – encourages public-private partnerships and
• Beneficiary-led individual house construction/enhancements (BLC),
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a credit-linked subsidy scheme by the Government of India to facilitate access to affordable housing for the low and moderate-income residents of the country.
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana deadline extended till December next year: Centre
PStates and UTs have been advised to accelerate the pace of construction and ensure the completion of sanctioned houses and projects within the stipulated timelines as per Detailed Project Report (DPR). The Ministry also regularly reviews the status of the implementation of the scheme through...
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PM housing scheme to be completed by December | Know how to apply, check status, eligibility? All DETAILS
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana: The mission launched by the Centre is expected to be completed by December this year with the target to construct 29.3 million houses for all rural poor.
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In a shocking revelation, a lab test report findings show beef tallow, fish oil and palm oil were being used to make the laddus - distributed as prasad - at the famous Sri Venkateswara temple in Tirupati.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday alleged that substandard ingredients and animal fat were used in making the famous Tirupati laddu, a consecrated sweet, during the previous YSRCP government. However, the party (YSRCP), has rejected the claim.
The report, in its findings reveal that the ghee used to make the iconic Tirupati laddu prasadam during the previous YSRCP government contained traces of animal fat, including beef tallow and fish oil, sparking massive outrage and accusations of disrespecting religious sentiments.
A report from the Centre of Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food, or CALF, lab at Gujarat's National Dairy Development Board revealed the presence of animal fat in ghee used to produce the famed Tirupati laddoos when the YSRCP was in power. The report indicated the ghee contained traces of fish oil, beef tallow, and lard; the last is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of a pig.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday alleged that substandard ingredients and animal fat were used in making the famous Tirupati laddu, a consecrated sweet, during the previous YSRCP government. However, the party (YSRCP), has rejected the claim.
The report, in its findings reveal that the ghee used to make the iconic Tirupati laddu prasadam during the previous YSRCP government contained traces of animal fat, including beef tallow and fish oil, sparking massive outrage and accusations of disrespecting religious sentiments.
A report from the Centre of Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food, or CALF, lab at Gujarat's National Dairy Development Board revealed the presence of animal fat in ghee used to produce the famed Tirupati laddoos when the YSRCP was in power. The report indicated the ghee contained traces of fish oil, beef tallow, and lard; the last is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of a pig.
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it was discussed, what we can maintain till end of this century, then we found Potato's/Aalo can also be offered with Rice.....
government is not paying for Daal or cooking oil type things as we can't promise these to nationals for long run.
India offers only what we can handsomely achieve for longer. Rice with trying for Potato's type items also, is something we have achieved in free Rashan. ........
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