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Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana ( PMGKAY; transl. Prime Minister's Food Security Scheme for the Poor) is a food security welfare scheme announced by the Government of India on March 26 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. [1] The program is operated by the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer ...
The Public Distribution System ( PDS) is a food security system that was established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to distribute food and non-food items to India's poor at subsidised rates. Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat, rice, sugar and ...
Ration card (India) Ration cards are an official document issued by state governments in India to households that are eligible to purchase subsidised food grain from the Public Distribution System under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). They also serve as a common form of identification for many Indians.
The Government of Jharkhand also known as the State Government of Jharkhand, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Jharkhand and its 24 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Jharkhand, a judiciary and a legislative branch. Like other states of India, the head of state ...
Annual budget. ₹205,765 crore (US$25 billion) (2023–24 est.) Ministers responsible. Piyush Goyal, ( Cabinet Minister) Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ( Minister of State) Ashwini Kumar Choubey, ( Minister of State) Website. https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is a government ministry of India.
List of governors. Following is the list of governors of Jharkhand since its inception on 15 November 2000. As of date, ten governors have been appointed to office. The first governor was Prabhat Kumar who served from 2000 till 2002. The current governor is C. P. Radhakrishnan who has been in office since 18 February 2023.
Members of the Government of Jharkhand in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly: Appointer: Governor of Jharkhand by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly: Term length: At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits. Inaugural holder ...
Antyodaya Anna Yojana is the sponsored scheme of Government of India to provide highly subsidised food to millions of the poorest families. This scheme was developed by the then Union Food and Civil Supplies Minister, N Sri Vishnu. It was launched by the NDA government on 25 December 2000 and first implemented in the Indian state of Rajasthan .