{"id":47008,"date":"2023-11-16T08:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T08:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=47008"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T08:28:36","slug":"congress-questions-discrepancy-pms-free-food-grain-scheme-announcement-not-evident-in-government-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/congress-questions-discrepancy-pms-free-food-grain-scheme-announcement-not-evident-in-government-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Questions Discrepancy: PM&#8217;s Free Food Grain Scheme Announcement Not Evident in Government Document"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI, Nov 16:<\/strong> Congress Questions Discrepancy in PM&#8217;s Free Food Grain Scheme Announcement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress raised concerns on Thursday, questioning the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s announcement regarding the extension of the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna by five years in the government&#8217;s official statement on the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jairam Ramesh, Congress general secretary, highlighted that during the Chhattisgarh election campaign on November 4, the Prime Minister declared the extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), a rebranding of the National Food Security Act, 2013, for an additional five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;However, last evening, an official press release from the Modi Government stated that PMGKAY has been extended for the year beginning Jan 1, 2023, with absolutely no reference to the announced five-year extension by the Prime Minister,&#8221; Ramesh pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He raised questions about the discrepancy, asking, &#8220;So what is really happening? Why is the PM\u2019s announcement not reflected in his Government\u2019s press note?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centre, on Wednesday, announced that it would provide free foodgrains to over 80 crore people under PMGKAY for a period of one year starting January 1, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 16: Congress Questions Discrepancy in PM&#8217;s Free Food Grain Scheme Announcement The Congress raised concerns on Thursday, questioning the absence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s announcement regarding the extension of the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna by five years in the government&#8217;s official statement on the scheme. Jairam Ramesh, Congress general secretary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1032,73,1033],"class_list":{"0":"post-47008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-earlypostdaily","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-latestnews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47011,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47008\/revisions\/47011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}