Social Welfare & Inclusion
How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.
No dossier is published under this sub-category yet.
I. K. Gujral, 21 Apr 1997 to 19 Mar 1998
JD United Front government
From June 1997 subsidised grain in the public distribution system was targeted at poor (BPL) households with separate prices for others; a 2005 evaluation found about 58% of central-pool grain did not reach BPL families.
Evidence points +2.5 (range +1.0 to +4.0)
Manmohan Singh, 22 May 2009 to 26 May 2014
INC UPA government
2013 law giving a legal entitlement to subsidised grain for up to 75% of rural and 50% of urban people (about 81 crore people on 2011 Census numbers), with 5 kg per person monthly and 35 kg for Antyodaya households.
Evidence points +15.0 (range +13.0 to +17.0)
Narendra Modi, 30 May 2019 to 9 Jun 2024
BJP NDA government
Free grain for National Food Security Act beneficiaries, begun in April 2020 as COVID-19 relief; from January 2024 free for five years for about 81.35 crore people, at an estimated Rs 11.80 lakh crore.
Evidence points +9.5 (range +9.0 to +10.0)