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Continue free rations for five years under PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana

Bharatiya Janata Party · Lok Sabha General Election 2024

Last updated 8 Jul 2026

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Original manifesto wording

“Continue to provide free rations for the next five years under the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana and protect the Garib ki thali.”

From the Bharatiya Janata Party manifestoView Manifesto

Our Assessment

The Union Cabinet approved a five-year extension of PMGKAY on 28 November 2023, effective 1 January 2024 and running through December 2028, providing 5 kg of free foodgrains per beneficiary per month to roughly 81 crore people at an estimated outlay of about Rs 11.8 lakh crore. The free-ration entitlement is subsumed within the National Food Security Act framework. The pledge is being delivered; note the extension was legislated before the April 2024 manifesto, which reaffirmed it.