LAUNCHED under NFSM (National Food Security Mission).During the year 2015 – 2016, the central GOVERNMENT changed the funding pattern.The current pattern followed is of 60:40. National Food Security Mission:It was launched in October 2007. It is a centrally sponsored scheme. National Development Council in his meetings adopted that the nation needs to enhance the production of food grains. It FOCUSES on the mass production of rice, wheat and pulses. It was launched by the then prime minister MANMOHAN Singh.It COMES under the ministry of agriculture and farmer’s welfare.