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Govt's food security programme to cost $21 billion a year: Paswan

Beneficiaries will get wheat at 2 rupees a kilogram and rice at 3 rupees per kilogram

Govt's food security programme to cost $21 billion a year: Paswan

Reuters New Delhi

Government's recently rolled out national food security welfare programme will cost the government 1.4 trillion rupees ($21.00 billion) a year, food minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Thursday.

The ultra-cheap food welfare programme, introduced by the previous Congress-led government, will cover 50 per cent of urban and 75 per cent of rural areas India.

Under the new law, which was rolled out across the country on Nov. 1, beneficiaries will get wheat at 2 rupees a kilogram and rice at 3 rupees per kilogram.

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First Published: Nov 03 2016 | 1:57 PM IST

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