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A report released by the Center for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine has demonstrated the way that 71% of Indians can't manage the cost of healthy food and more than 17 lakh (1.7 million) people pass on each year because of illnesses owing to an unhealthy eating routine. Overall 42% of the total population can't manage the cost of a healthy diet, said the report named "Province of India's Environment 2022: in figures". The report said that the diet of an average Indian doesn't contain an adequate number of organic products, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and entire grains. In this way poor dietary habits can bring about respiratory infirmities, diabetes, malignant growth, strokes and coronary illness, it added. An Indian aged 20 or more consumes just 35.8 gra...

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PM-GKAY Extended For Six Months; A Return Gift By BJP Government

Sonia SolankiMarch 28, 20220

The PM-GKAY will continue for the next six months as PM Modi has announced the news from a press release on TV. This is the 5th phase of this welfare food scheme. This extension is equivalent to a return gift by the BJP government post winning 4 states out of 5 in recent assembly polls. The decision was taken place during the cabinet meeting which was headed by PM Modi. The official statement of the meeting informs that the 5th phase of PM-GKAY will cost an additional Rs 80,000 crore in next six months. So, the total expenditure of the welfare scheme is touted at Rs 3.40 lakh crores till September 2022. The officials said that the decision by the cabinet is taken keeping the benefits it gives to poor and needy people. As COVID-19 is controlled yet not finished and many people are...