TMC MP Sougata Roy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to extend the free foodgrain programme via six greater months.Roy stated the terrible are yet to get better from the economic blows brought about by the pandemic and the lockdowns.”May I take the indulgence of inviting your type word to the truth that the validity period of distribution of meals grains beneath PMGKAY will be over on and from September 2022.”I would request you to consider extension of the schemes for at least six months as the menace of corona nevertheless haunts the usa and human beings and specifically the negative NFSA (National Food Security Act) beneficiaries have still no longer been able to overcome the financial damage triggered by using the pandemic,” Roy said in the letter, dated August 13.
The scheme, which benefits over eighty crore people, was once prolonged in March for six months until September.”I have entreated the prime minister to lengthen the programme as the poor humans of the us of a are nonetheless reeling underneath the blows of the pandemic and the lockdowns. Their financial state of affairs is yet to return to the pre-COVID days,” Roy informed journalists on Sunday.
In March 2020, the Centre had launched the scheme, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), to furnish free foodgrains to over 80 crore beneficiaries blanketed under the National Food Security Act as section of its efforts to limit the hardships of humans at some stage in the coronavirus pandemic.
