14 May : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on May 14 came out with a string of measures for the migrant labourers, who have become the face of the humanitarian and economic crisis brought by the coronavirus outbreak, as she for the second day shared the details of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
All migrant workers will be provided free food grains for the next two months, the minister said as she announced the first of the three measures for them.
“For non-(PDS) cardholders, they shall be given 5kg wheat/rice per person and 1 kg chana per family/month for two months. Eight crore migrants will benefit from this and Rs 3500 crore to be spent on this,” the finance minister said, adding states would be the implementing agencies for the programme.
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