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State governments have distributed around 61 per cent of the free foodgrains meant for the month of April under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana till May 5, according of data captured by electronic Point-of-Sale (e-PoS) devices.
Within the states too, there has been wide disparity with some like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh distributing more than 90 per cent of the April month’s quota of free ration, while others like Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand have lagged.
Under the Garib Kalyan Scheme, states have been allocated 4.04 million tonnes of food grains per month for free
