AreaIndia

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date04/05/2022

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentFood subsidies

DescriptionAnnounced that it would allocate an additional 5.5 million tonnes of rice to distribute instead of wheat under the sixth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana programme to meet demand from rice-consuming states. In addition, it will scale up the distribution of fortified rice for the entire Public Distribution System next year.