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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Coronavirus package: Migrant workers to get free foodgrains

Coronavirus package: Migrant workers to get free foodgrains

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published Published on May 14, 2020   modified Modified on May 15, 2020

-The Hindu

Rs.3,500 crore of second tranche of stimulus to be spent on allocation to those without ration cards.

A major focus of the second tranche of the economic stimulus package announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday was to provide free foodgrains for the next two months to migrant workers who do not have ration cards. The Centre will spend 3,500 crore for this purpose.

Quoting numbers from State governments, Ms. Sitharaman said there are an estimated 8 crore migrant workers who have been housed in government and privately run relief camps across the country since the lockdown.

However, economists said this intervention was too little, too late, and that the free foodgrain provision should have been universalised to deal with widespread distress.

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The Hindu, 14 May, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/second-tranche-of-economic-package-to-benefit-migrant-workers-small-farmers-nirmala-sitharaman/article31583468.ece


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