What has our government done to provide food security to the poor? Discuss any two schemes launched by the government
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2.Antyodaya Anna Yojana
The government has assumed the ability of the food grains with the help of a carefully designed to Security System the system involves the maintenance of a buffer stock of food grains and the distribution of these food among the poorest section of the society with the help of the public distribution system.
1) Antyodaya Anna Yojana
• launched in December 2008 creates the families below poverty level
• under this scheme one chronic of the poorest among the BPL family covered under this targeted Public Distribution system were identified
• the quantity of the food grains were engaged from 25 to 35 kg with effect from April 2002
2). National food for work program
• launched in November 2004 it creates to 150 most backward district of the country
• its object is to intensify the generation of supplementary wage employment
• it is a percent centrally sponsored scheme. The food grains are provided to the states free of cost