announces special 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme for foreign workers- MANREGA
- 8 crore overseas laborers will be given 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of chickpeas free of cost in two months.
- Provincial workers will get jobs in MGNREGA, up to 50 per cent increase in registration
- Cheap loans to 3 crore farmers, credit cards to 25 lakh new farmers: Finance Minister
- Overseas, poor and needy Our priority: Sitharaman
New Delhi.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is announcing the second phase of the breakup of the Rs 20 lakh crore relief package. The finance minister said today that 9 important announcements would be made for overseas laborers, street vendors, small traders and farmers. In the first phase, many advertisements were made for small businesses, real estate, organized sector workers and others.
Key points of Breakup Part-2
"We will take care of the foreign workers, the poor and the needy," he said. After the announcement of the lockdown, the Prime Minister announced a poor welfare scheme. We're constantly advertising. 3 crore farmers took loans at concessional rates. He took an agricultural loan of Rs 4 lakh crore.
The interest subsidy scheme for farmers will continue till May 31.
63 lakh agricultural loans were given in March-April. It was 86 thousand 600 crores.
This benefited the farmers.
The central government has increased financial assistance to the states for the purchase of crops by Rs 6,700 crore. Rs 4200 crore has been provided for infrastructure development in rural areas.
Shelter homes have been arranged for people during Corona.
