The central government on Monday said that it has transferred an amount of ₹49,965 crore directly into farmers’ accounts across India under its Direct Benefit Transfer programme. Under the PM-GKAY, the central government provides free-of-cost food grains (rice/wheat) at a scale of 5 Kg per person per month to the beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act, 2013. Pandey said that, in the third phase of Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, the entre provided free food grains to 80 crore beneficiaries. He said that a monthly average of about 1.5 to 1.6 crore portability transactions is being recorded under ONORC. Besides, almost 18.3 crore portability transactions were recorded during the Covid-19 period of April 2020 to April 2021 itself," Pandey added.

Source: Mint May 10, 2021 13:30 UTC