Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 5: Chief spokesperson of J&K BJP Mahila Morcha Ritika Trehan today said that like other parts of the country, Jammu and Kashmir has also benefitted a lot from food security scheme of the Modi Government.
Ritika said this while welcoming the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for next five years, providing free ration to 80 crore people across the country.
Highlighting the initiative of the Central Government in a handout issued here, she said that the extension of the food security scheme was a great relief for the poor during the Coronavirus crisis.
“J&K also benefitted a lot from food security scheme. Almost every village in J&K is getting this ration, she said. Stating that PM Modi has given credit to the farmers and tax payers for enabling the Centre to provide free food grains during the Covid -19 phase to the poor and needy, she said, “Together with Prime Minister, the J&K BJP leadership and the Party also thank the honest tax payers elsewhere which had made this possible”.
Reiterating PM Modi’s call for working towards a self-reliant India, Ritika said “This is also very relevant to J&K so that we may be ‘Self Reliant J&K’ which the BJP Government under the leadership of PM Modi is pursuing for and also to be vocal for local.”
Calling the extension of the food security scheme as PM’s ‘Diwali gift’, she said every policy and every action of the PM is imbued with the vision of welfare of the poor and resolution to benefit the last person standing. The decision to extend the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana for the next five years to provide free ration to 80 crore people is a symbol of that resolve,” she added.
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