The Union government had released orders for allocation of almost 8 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of extra food grains to the States and Union Territories, which would disperse it to 8 crore migrant workers and their households, Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday.
The government was sensitive to the predicament of migrant workers, who have actually been left without any earnings because March in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, he said.
Mr. Paswan’s declaration came even as lakhs of migrant workers are still on the roadway, trying to make their way back to their native villages from cities throughout the nation.
Attending to a press briefing through videoconference, he said: “If the variety of migrants goes beyond the curre