upliftment of the poorest of the poor
Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a centrally sponsored scheme launched on December 25, 2000 for one crore poor families with the aim of ensuring food security in India. This is an important milestone in providing food grains to the poor. It considered providing 35kg. of food grains per month at highly subsidized rates of Rs. 2 per kg. for wheat and Rs. 3 per kg. For rice to each Antyodaya family.
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