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Free Rice Scheme – Telangana
January 8 , 2023
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- The Telangana government has decided to join the free rice scheme of the Centre under the National Food Security Act (NFSA).
- The Central scheme envisaged supply of five kgs of rice per head per month in a family to NFSA cardholders in the State.
- But the State government will extend the scheme to an additional 35.52 lakh cardholders at its own cost.
- The two types of cardholders had been getting the benefit of free rice under the Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana under the Public Distribution System (PDS) till December 31.
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