The Union government on Thursday revealed a Rs. 1.7 lakh crore plan in action to the COVID-19 pandemic and countrywide lockdown, offering free food and cash transfers to support the poorest people who are most vulnerable during the crisis.
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The food grain provision for 80 crore poor individuals would be doubled for the next 3 months, supplemented by a kg of regional pulses as well, Financing Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.
The Centre would supply Rs. 50 lakh medical insurance cover for the next three months for about 22 lakh health employees in government healthcare facilities battling the spread of the infection at individual danger, consisting of ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers, medical sanitary workers in federal government healthcare facilities, paramedics, nurses and doctors.
The Pradhan Mantri Gharib Kalyan Yojana had been revealed within 36 hours of the lockdown and it would look after the needs of bad and migrant employees, farmers, women, pensioners, widows and the handicapped, stated Ms Sitharaman.
” We do not want anyone to remain hungry, so we will be giving enough to look after their food grain requirement, protein requirement in