Around 42 Crores Poor Got Money Related Help Of Rs 53,248 cr.

Around 42 crores poor got money related help of Rs 53,248 cr under PMGKP. Around 42 crore needy individuals have gotten money related help of Rs 53,248 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP), the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.

On March 26, the Government had declared the Rs 1.70 lakh crore financial package to help the defenseless areas of the general public arrangement with the COVID-19 emergency. The package involves free food grains and money installments to ladies, the older, farmers, and others. The ministry said execution of the package is as a rule persistently observed by Central and State Governments.

“Around 42 crores destitute individuals got money related help of Rs 53,248 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP),” it said. Giving subtleties of the advancement accomplished till Tuesday, it said Rs 16,394 crore was front-stacked towards the installment of the primary portion of PM-KISAN to 8.19 crore recipients, and Rs 20,344 crore credited to ladies Jan Dhan account holders in two portions.

In addition, Rs 2,814.5 crore has been dispensed to about 2.81 crores old, widows, and crippled people in two portions. Under PMGKP, 2.3 crore building and development laborers additionally got money related help adding up to Rs 4,312.82 crore.

The Service additionally said so far 101 lakh MT of food grains have been lifted by 36 states/Association Regions for April. “36.93 LMT of food grains have been appropriated, covering 73.86 crore recipients by 36 States/UTs for April 2020.

“32.92 LMT of food grains have been appropriated, covering 65.85 crore recipients by 35 States/UTs for May 2020,” it said. It included that 3.58 LMT of food grains have been appropriated, covering 7.16 crore recipients by 17 states/UTs for June.

Additionally, 5.06 LMT of heartbeats has been dispatched to different states/UTs. An aggregate of 1.91 LMT of heartbeats have been conveyed so far to 17.9 crore family unit recipients out of 19.4 crore such recipients, the service said.

Further, 9.25 crore Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) LPG chambers have been reserved up until now and 8.58 crore free chambers conveyed to recipients. According to the ministry, 16.1 lakh individuals from EPFO have taken advantage of the online withdrawal of non-refundable development from the EPFO account adding up to Rs 4,725 crore. Additionally, 24 percent of EPF commitment has been moved to 59.23 lakh workers’ records adding up to Rs 895.09 crore.