The IMF paper, titled Pandemic, Poverty & Inequality: Evidence from India. The country managed to keep extreme poverty below 1% level in 2020 despite the unprecedented Covid-19 outbreak, by resorting to food transfers through the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY). As many as 89.1% of rural eligible households and 77.3% of urban households, with an all-India average of 84.6%, received food transfers during the pandemic through the PDS. The supply of free grains as part of the PMGKY scheme was initially launched for the April-June period of FY21, it has been extended up to September 2022. Under the scheme, 81.35 crore people are eligible for 5 kg free wheat/rice per person per month, along with 1 kg free whole chana to each family per month.
Adani Group’s hydrogen blending project is based in which Indian city?
Consider the following statements about the NPCI's global initiatives:
I. NPCI's collaboration with Namibia aims to replicate the UPI system.
...Which Union minister recently inaugurated Sealdah metro station in West Bengal?
According to the RBI’s guidelines on the establishment of Digital Banking Units (DBUs), the products and services to be provided at a DBU include?
SIDBI has partnered with ___________ to connect the informal rural microenterprises with the formal financial sector to help them digitise their busines...
Who was named the Player of the Year for 2023 in the men’s category at the sixth annual Hockey India Awards?
Which edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit took place at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi this year?
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What award did Tamil writer Sivashankari win for her contributions to literature recently?
In case of a tie between two contestants in general elections who has the authority to break the tie?