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Jharkhand CM launches mobile app to provide monetary assistance to workers trapped outside

| @indiablooms | Apr 16, 2020, at 08:00 pm

Ranchi/UNI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday announced that the state government will identify all the workers who are trapped outside the state within a week and provide them with monetary assistance.

Addressing a function after launching a special mobile app at the project building, he said, the money will be directly transferred in the account of the beneficiary through DBT.

The chief minister said that at least Rs 1000 will be provided.

He said that the state government was working with the aim to provide monetary assistance in the accounts of the workers within a week by using the mobile app.

He said since the starting days of the lockdown the state government through its limited resources is trying its best to provide relief to the people.

The chief minister said in the first phase of the lockdown itself the state government had established coordination with other states to provide them with dry ration.

He said that in the crisis caused due to Coronavirus the government was working with sensitivity towards the need of worker, labourers, Dalits and poor.

Hemant said it is the poor and the workers who have been most hit by the lockdown and pointed out that since in search of jobs people had gone to other states therefore they got trapped due to lockdown and since the period of lockdown has increased therefore their problems have increased however the state government was trying its best to help the needy.


 

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