Lok Sabha Question No. 283 (STARRED), answered on 2023-08-09
Subject: Reduction in Allocation under PMGKAY
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## INISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRSI FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.283 TO BE ANSWERED ON 9TH AUGUST,  2023

## REDUCTION IN ALLOCATION UNDER PMGKAY

## t'283. SHRI RAJIV  RANJAN SINGH ALIAS LALAN SINGH: SHRI KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR:

Will the Minister of  CONSUMER  AFFAIRS,  FOOD  AND  PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION aqqtxm qm+, vrush TT§Xfqq f+aor IHt be pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the allocation under  the  Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) has been reduced;
- (b) if  so, the  total  number of beneficiaries of the said scheme in the country at present, State-wise;
- (c) if  not, the date upto which the said scheme has been extended; and
- (d) the details of  the  amount of funds being spent under the said scheme, year-wise?

MINISTER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY! CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION AND TEXTILES

ANSWER (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a) to  (d): A statement  is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  THE STARRED QUESTION NO. 283  DUE FOR ANSWER ON 09n08a2023 IN THE LOK SABHA.

(a) to (c):  The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) had been launched with  the  speeific  purpose of ameliorating  the  hardships faced by the poor and needy due to economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The allocation of free foodgrains, under PMGKAY was  in addition to  normal allocation done under the National  Food  Security  Act (NFSA), 2013.  A  total quantity of  approx, 1118 LMT foodgrains  had been allocated  under PMGKAY (Phase I-VII) for the period of 28 months with  a planned financial outlay of about Rs. 1.13 lakh crores for  FY 2020-21, 1.47 lakh crores for  FY 2021-22 and 1.31 Lakh crores for  FY 2022-23.

The Central Government, to remove the financial burden of the poor beneficiaries and to  ensure nationwide uniformity and effective implementation of National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA), decided to provide food grains free of cost to AAY households and PHH beneficiaries under NFSA, 2013, for a period of one year, beginning from Ist  Jan 2023, under the  Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) with  the likely expenditure of  nearly Rs, 2  lakh crore annually.

The  number of beneficiaries keeps on  ehanging due  to addition/deletion  of  ration  cards  due to  various  reasons, as  reported by States/UTs time  to  time.. The State-wise  details  of  current  number of beneficiaries benefitted  under the  Pradhan Mantri  Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana are attached  at Annexure.

(d):  This Department releases food subsidy to  Fei and States which have adopted Decentralized Procurement mode (DCP). States are allocated food grains at  subsidized rates under National Food Security Act (NFSA) and Other Welfare Schemes, Difference between Economic Cost and Central Issue Price (CIP) at  which foodgrains are issued to States are reimbursed to  Food Corporation of India (FC:1) and DCP States as food subsidy. Further,  FOI also procures foodgrains from  non Dep States and reimburse entire acquisition cost to non-DCP Statesa Thereafter, food  grains are  released by  FC:1 to  non-Dep States at subsidized rates for their  distribution under TPDS/OWS. In addition, notional subsidy i.e, cost of the foodgrains issued to the non-Dep States, to the tune of around RS, IOO049.61 crores, was given to non-DCP States in the year 2021-22. Funds are also released to FC:1 for maintenance of buffer stocks of foodgrains. Further, Government of India also provides assistance to  States in  meeting the expenditure incurred by them on transportation of foodgrains within the State, its handling and FPS dealers' margin as per norms devised for this  purposeu Release of food subsidy is an ongoing and continuous process. The amount released by Gol on account of  food subsidy to  FOI & Dep States and Central Assistance on  intra-state  transportation  &  FPS dealers  margin for distribution of foodgrains in FY 2022-23 and FY 2023-24 (upto July, 2023) are as below:

| S8Nop   | Item                                                                              | Total fund released (Amount in Rs crores)   | Total fund released (Amount in Rs crores)   | Total fund released (Amount in Rs crores)   |
|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
|         |                                                                                   | FY 2022-23                                  | FY 2023-24 (as on 31 .07.2023               | Total                                       |
| 1       | Food subsidy to Fai                                                               | 2,00,21 9a2                                 | 50,770.00                                   | 2 ,50,989.20                                |
| 2.      | Food subsidy to Dap States                                                        | 72l282n50                                   | 18,019.41                                   | 1 90,30ln91                                 |
| 3a      | Central Assistance on account of FPS dealers margin & inter- state transportation | 8,572.03                                    | 1 1391 .31                                  | 9,963.34                                    |
|         | Total                                                                             | 2,81 ,073.73                                | I                                           | 1                                           |

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to  (c) OF STARRED QUESTION No.283 FOR ANSWER ON 09.08.2023  IN THE LOK SABHA

| I: e   | /                 | Accepted No. of persons under NFSA (in lakh)   | Ceiling of AAY HH (in lakh)   | No. of families/persons identified under NFSA (in   | No. of families/persons identified under NFSA (in   | No. of families/persons identified under NFSA (in   | No. of families/persons identified under NFSA (in   | No. of families/persons identified under NFSA (in   |
|--------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| I: e   | /                 |                                                |                               | h a                                                 | h a                                                 | lakh)                                               | 1 persons                                           | 1 persons                                           |
| I: e   | /                 |                                                |                               | families I No. of                                   | person                                              | I persons                                           | 1 persons                                           | 1 persons                                           |
| 1      | Andhra Pradesh    | 268.23                                         | 9.09                          | nTI                                                 |                                                     |                                                     |                                                     |                                                     |
| 2      | Arunachal Pradesh | 8.71                                           | o.38                          | 1 o.38                                              | f 1.50                                              | 1 6.90                                              | f 8.40                                              | 1 96.48%                                            |
| 'q )   | Assam             | 251.90                                         | 7.04                          | 6.92                                                | 28.08                                               | 223.08                                              | 251.17                                              | 99.71%                                              |
| 4      | Bihar             | 871.16                                         | 25.01                         | 25.01                                               | 125.05                                              | 746.11                                              | 871.16                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 5      | Chhattisgarh      | 200.77                                         | 7.19                          | 7.19                                                | 20.42                                               | 180.35                                              | 200.77                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 6      | Delhi             | 72.78                                          | 1.57                          | 0.69                                                | 2.80                                                | 69.98                                               | 72.78                                               | 100.00%                                             |
| 7      | Goa               | 5.32                                           | 0.18                          | 0.12                                                | 0.46                                                | 4.86                                                | 5.32                                                | 100.00%                                             |
| 8      | Gujarat           | 382.84                                         | 8.13                          | 7.73                                                | 35.53                                               | 316.07                                              | 351.60                                              | 91.84%                                              |
| 9      | Haryana           | 126.49                                         | 3.03                          | 2.68                                                | 11.35                                               | 115.14                                              | 126.49                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 10     | Himachal Pradesh  | 36.82                                          | 1 1.97                        | 1 1.82                                              | f 7.67                                              | 1 20.98                                             | 1 28.64                                             | 1 77.80%                                            |
| 11     | Jharkhand         | 264.25                                         | 9.18                          | 8.94                                                | 34.76                                               | 229.43                                              | 264.19                                              | 99.98%                                              |
| 12     | Karnataka         | 401.93                                         | 12.00                         | 10.97                                               | 43.91                                               | 358.02                                              | 401.93                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 13     | Kerala            | 154.80                                         | 5.96                          | 5.96                                                | 25.59                                               | 129.2 1                                             | 154.80                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 14     | a                 | 546.42                                         | 15.82                         | 14.76                                               | 57.06                                               | 454.26                                              | 511.32                                              | 93.58%                                              |
| 15     | Maharashtra       | 700.17                                         | 25.05                         | 25.05                                               | 108.01                                              | 592.16                                              | 700.17                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 16     | Manipur           | 25.06                                          | 0.64                          | 0.64                                                | 1.82                                                | 18.26                                               | 20.08                                               | 80.14%                                              |
| 17     | Meghalaya         | 21.46                                          | 0.70                          | 0.70                                                | 2.91                                                | 18.54                                               | 21.46                                               | 100.00%                                             |
| 18     | nz                | 7.06                                           | 0.26                          | 0.26                                                | 0.64                                                | 6.17                                                | 6.81                                                | 96.50%                                              |
| 19     | Nagaland          | 14.79                                          | 0.48                          | 0.48                                                | 2.11                                                | 11.94                                               | 14.05                                               | 94.98%                                              |
| 20     | Odisha            | 326.21                                         | 12.65                         | 12.53                                               | 37.81                                               | 287.22                                              | 325.03                                              | 99.64%                                              |
| 21     | Punjab            | 141.51                                         | 1.79                          | 1.79                                                | 7.71                                                | 133.80                                              | 141.51                                              | 100.00%                                             |
| 1 22   | Rajasthan         | 446.62                                         | 9.32                          | 6.29                                                | 22.29                                               | 417.72                                              | 440.01                                              | 98.52%                                              |
| 23     | Im                | 4.06                                           | 0.17                          | 0.17                                                | 0.57                                                | 3.24                                                | 3.81                                                | 93.91%                                              |
| 24     | a                 | 364.70                                         | 18.65                         | 18.64                                               | 65.78                                               | 298.34                                              | 364.12                                              | 99.84%                                              |
| 25     | Telangana         | 191.70                                         | 6.49                          | 5.67                                                | 15.29                                               | 176.33                                              | 191.62                                              | 99.96%                                              |
| 26     | Tripura           | 25.02                                          | 1.13                          | 1.09                                                | 4.62                                                | 19.81                                               | 24.43                                               | 97.65%                                              |
| 27     | Uttar Pradesh     | 1520.61                                        | 40.95                         | 40.89                                               | 132.92                                              | 1370.85                                             | 1503.77                                             | 98.89%                                              |
| 28     | Uttarakhand       | 61.94                                          | 1.91                          | 1.84                                                | 7.92                                                | 54.02                                               | 61.94                                               | 100.00%                                             |
| 29     | West Bengal       | 601.84                                         | 19.86                         | 16.42                                               | 54.99                                               | 546.85                                              | 601.84                                              | 100.00%                                             |

|       | A&N              |         |   0.11 |        |          |           |           | 96.61%     |
|-------|------------------|---------|--------|--------|----------|-----------|-----------|------------|
|       | DNH&DD           |         |   0.08 |        |          |           |           | 75.60%     |
|       | Lakshadweep      |         |   0.01 |        |          |           |           | 99.06%     |
|       | Chandigarh a)BT) |         |   0.09 |        |          |           |           | 60.28%     |
|       | Puducherry (DBT) | 6.34    |   0.32 | 0.25   | 0.82     | 5.52      | 6.34      | 99.99%     |
|       | J&K              | 72.69   |   2.76 | 2.33   | 10.61    | 61.80     | 72.41     | 99.61%     |
|       | Ladakh           | 1.44    |   0.06 | 0.06   | 0.29     | 1.15      | 1.44      | 99.99%     |
| Total | Total            | 8135.01 | 250    | 237.44 | 1 895.24 | 1 7128.91 | 1 8024.15 | 1 98.649'i |

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