Mysuru: Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries and Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel said that the aim of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to make India a hunger-free country where food security is guaranteed to all.
He was speaking after unveiling an awareness poster on Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) to be displayed at all fair price shops in Mysuru district. The programme was jointly organised by the District Administration, Zilla Panchayat and Food and Civil Supplies Department at Seth Mohandas Tulsidas Hospital Circle on Apr. 13.
The PMGKY scheme provides an opportunity to declare unaccounted wealth and black money in a confidential manner and avoid prosecution after paying a fine of 50 percent on the undisclosed income. An additional 25 percent of the undisclosed income is invested in the scheme which can be refunded after four years, without any interest. As part of the scheme, the Government later announced medical insurance coverage for COVID Warriors, food security and Direct Benefit Transfers for the poor.
Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said that the week from Apr. 13 to Apr. 20 will be observed as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Week and regretted that even after 75 years of Independence, India still remained a country where a huge population sleeps hungry.
“Through the Jal Jeevan Mission, we have an aim of providing drinking water to every household and Karnataka has made good progress in this regard,” he said.
Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar, BJP State President Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLA L. Nagendra, In-Charge Mayor Sunanda Palanetra, Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) Chairman H.V. Rajeev, Additional DC Dr. B.S. Manjunathaswamy, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy, Corporators M.V. Ramprasad, B.V. Manjunath, Pallavi Begum, Sowmya Umesh, Food and Civil Supplies Department Joint Director Kumuda and others were present.
MLA S.A. Ramdas, in his address, said that the initiatives launched during COVID crisis to address hunger issues, is still being continued. Maintaining that every eligible family is getting 35 kg of rice every month under Antyodaya Scheme, he said that the distribution of BPL cards to eligible families who had applied online, has started now.
Earlier, Ramdas distributed ration to differently-abled BPL card holders and also launched installation of nameboards at all Fair Price Shops coming under K.R. Constituency.
There seems to be more BJP ministers in Modi’s government than the number of Congress MPs!
Just look at the prices for example these essential food items: INR 3500 per quintal of rice, INR at least of 1 L groundnut oil, vegetables like onions and tomatoes selling at INR 30 ,and it requires a INR100 wad of notes even to go to fruit and vegetable markets like in Nanju Malige. In this situation how does Modi ensure the food security guarantee for my cousin a gate keeper or some one like him with his salary?
Does Modi, an intentionally single person- after he deserted his wife, know the cost to feed a family of just 2 children, for an average Mysorean, after paying the hefty costs of bills piling up, and considering the prices of essential food items?
If he knew, he would not be prattling this bullshit of food security guarantee message.
Having said the above, interesting looking in that photograph, the man who holds the bag on the right, and the woman in the left do not need such guarantee!! Wonder what they do for a living!
Freebies for the sake of winning can only destroy the nation. Today Punjab and Delhi people are rejoising as they get lots of free stuff from electricity to pension schemes even for those who never worked. This is how Srilanka got ruined. Now nobody blames the greedy people who voted them to power.
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“Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY is just a con plot from this single man Modi, who does not understand how Indian families are suffering. The drinking water promise is nonsense.
There is plenty of unaccounted money in India, through a number of sources, one of them is the money coming in in terms of crores of Rupees through gold smuggling from the Gulf States, where officials and ministers are involved as well as currency smuggling which involves powerful central ministers.
Corrupt India. Con man Modi like his Congress predecessors.