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Nirmala Sitharaman to address her third press conference today

Nirmala Sitharaman to address her third press conference today

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 15 May 2020, 04:57 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address a press conference for the third time on Friday.

Sitharaman has been giving details of the Narendra Modi government's mega stimulus of Rs. 20 lakh crore economic package by addressing press conference regularly since Wednesday.

Sitharaman on Thursday said all migrant workers, who received a body blow due to the anti-Coronavirus lockdown, will get free food grains for the next two months. 

Sitharaman, who was providing the second tranche of the Narendra Modi government's mega stimulus of Rs. 20 lakh crore economic package, said the government will bear the expense of Rs. 3,500 crore in providing free food grains for the migrant workers. 

Learning from the Covid-19 situation, the Modi government, in a bid to avoid the crisis related to migrant workers in future, announced through Sitharaman "One Nation One Ration Card" system.

Under this, one can avail his ration using the same card at any part of the country. The migrant worker being in any part of the country can draw a portion of the ration if the other rest was drawn by his family members residing in other cities.

Besides food, the central government in an attempt to provide shelter to the migrant workers, who work in various parts of the country, will launch a scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).

Under the scheme, the government will convert government-funded housing in the cities into rental housing complexes under PPP mode to provide shelters to the migrant workers.

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