{"id":9839,"date":"2020-06-30T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:33","slug":"pm-modi-free-foodgrains-for-80-crore-poor-in-india-till-november-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/pm-modi-free-foodgrains-for-80-crore-poor-in-india-till-november-end\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi: Free foodgrains for 80 crore poor in India till November-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that 80 crore poor across the country will get free foodgrains till November-end as the country fights Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). It is part of an ongoing scheme that is being extended till November.<\/p>\n<p>Modi said that as the fight against COVID-19 continues, the poor need foodgrains and it is the honest taxpayers\u2019 money that is helping in feeding the poor in this critical time. The scheme includes giving five kilo free ration and one kilo dal per month to 80 crore poor across the country. \u201cIn the coming months, there are festivals, and the scheme is being extended till Diwali and Chhath Puja,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that some negligence has been noticed among people while following precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. \u201cEarlier, people were using masks, social distancing, washing hands for 20 seconds etc, more diligently,\u201d he said, adding that social and personal behaviour among many is a cause of concern. \u201cWhether it is a village pradhan or the country\u2019s pradhan mantra, no one is above the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister said this in his address to the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[378,246,346,371,92],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-containment-zones","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-india","10":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","11":"tag-lockdown-in-india","12":"tag-narendra-modi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}