Kolkata: TMC MP Sougata Roy has written to High Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to lengthen the free foodgrain programme by six more months.
Roy said the center-broken are but to recover from the industrial blows precipitated by the pandemic and the lockdowns.
“Might perhaps I opt the indulgence of racy your sort uncover to the real fact that the validity interval of distribution of food grains beneath PMGKAY will be over on and from September 2022.
“I’d demand you to place in mind extension of the schemes for no longer no longer up to six months as the menace of corona unruffled haunts the nation and of us and seriously the center-broken NFSA (National Food Security Act) beneficiaries bask in unruffled no longer been ready to conquer the monetary damage precipitated by the pandemic,” Roy said within the letter, dated August 13.
The scheme, which advantages over 80 crore of us, was extended in March for six months till September.
“I no doubt bask in urged the prime minister to lengthen the programme as the center-broken of us of the nation are unruffled reeling beneath the blows of the pandemic and the lockdowns. Their monetary space is but to arrive to the pre-COVID days,” Roy told reporters on Sunday.
In March 2020, the Centre had launched the scheme, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), to sort free foodgrains to over 80 crore beneficiaries lined beneath the National Food Security Act as fragment of its efforts to decrease the hardships of of us for the interval of the coronavirus pandemic.
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