Rice at the rate of Rs.3 per kg and wheat at the rate of Rs.2 per kg is provided by the government to every eligible person every month under the NFSA Act, which guarantees food security. . Apart from this, coarse grains are also given at the rate of one rupee per kg. The NFSA Act was implemented in July 2013, in which 67 percent of the country’s population was given the legal right to get food grains at a very cheap rate. Terming the decision to provide free ration to over 67 crore people under the NFSA a ‘New Year’s gift’ to the country’s poor, government officials said that the beneficiaries would no longer have to pay a single penny for food grains. Will not have to pay Rs. The government itself will bear the entire burden of about two lakh crore rupees on this.