MASSIVE: Modi govt announces Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package for the poor and COVID-19 warriors amid 21-day lockdown

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(PC: Janta Ka Reporter)

As the country goes under lockdown for the next three weeks, the Government of India has come forward to help the poor and deprived sections of the society, whose income has been hurt due to the lockdown.

The government has come up with a well calibrated approach, and announced a total of 1.7 lakh crore rupees relief package under the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY). This is an unprecedented relief package as 1.7 lakh crore rupees is a huge sum of money, accounting for around 7-8 percent of union government total expenditure in the last fiscal year.

The government announced relief measures under the different schemes so that every person of the country who is not economically secure could benefit from one scheme or other. Relief amount under the majority of the schemes like PM-KISAN, MGNREGA will given through direct benefit transfer so that there is no leakage and every household has money to buy essential items.

Here is the list of the relief measures announced by the Finance Ministry under the PMGKY.

The slew of relief measures announced by the government covers almost the entire poor population, and every person from the poor and marginalized section of the society has something in the scheme. All the relief measures will start getting credited by the first date of the next month, which is also the start of the next financial year. Most of the benefits except for the subsidized food are getting credited through direct benefit transfer and therefore there are no chances of leakage.

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