Package announced includes both food security and cash transfer components
Current Affairs Fund Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday declared an alleviation bundle for poor people and vagrant laborers in the nation considering the 21-day lockdown in the nation to handle the test presented by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
The Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan conspire worth Rs 1.7 trillion will have two sections — money move and nourishment security, said the Finance Minister. Covid-19 bundle to deal with the government assistance worries of poor people and transient laborers who have been enduring a result of an across the country lockdown
The FM additionally reported a clinical protection plot for wellbeing laborers. This Rs 50 lakh for each individual protection plan would be pertinent to all wellbeing laborers that incorporates sanitation and ASHA laborers, paramedics, specialists, medical attendants. 2,000,000 wellbeing laborers will profit by this plan, educated the priest.
“We don’t need anybody to stay hungry, so we will be offering enough to deal with their foodgrain necessity, protein prerequisite regarding beats,” the clergyman said.
“Then again, they ought to likewise not stay without cash close by. So a few measures through DBT are being taken with the goal that cash contacts them so they can have cash in their grasp.”
Aditi Mehta 