Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed a press conference and provided details on the Rs 50,000 crore PM Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, which will be launched on June 20 primarily to generate jobs for migrant workers who have returned home. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Centre was launching the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan which will help migrant labourers find work in rural areas amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: "Some workers wanted to go back to their villages during lockdown, states and centre made arrangements for these workers. For 125 days, 25 schemes of the government will be brought together and we shall reach saturation levels for identified schemes in the 116 districts. Everyone who needs assignments in these districts will be given work, budgeted amounts will be used and if necessary more will be allocated."
Under the Garib Kalyan Yojana works such as community sanitisation, Gram Panchayat Bhawan, national highway works, construction of wells, horticulture, railway works will be undertaken.
The states where the projects will be implemented include Bihar (32), Uttar Pradesh (31); Madhya Pradesh (24), Rajasthan (22) and Odisha (4), Jharkhand (3).
Those present at the conference along with Sitharaman included, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar and Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
The finance minister said that first priority under the programme will be to assist migrant workers who have gone back to their home towns. “As we go along, we will have to see if the migrant workers will continue to be in the identified districts and we will frontload government programmes in these districts.
We want to front-load money allotted for the 25 different works for the 116 districts, to ensure that migrant workers in all these districts are given employment, providing a direction to these workers, also helping rural asset creation- FM @nsithraman #GaribKalyanRojgarAbhiyaan pic.twitter.com/kdzFIZiv07
— PIB in Maharashtra 🇮🇳 (@PIBMumbai) June 18, 2020
"25000 workers in each district in these 116 districts have been identified to be given employment under the scheme," said Sitharaman.
Government schemes like Jal Jeevan Mission, Gram Sadak Yojna etc will need people and job opportunities will be created through these projects. The FM added that the government has mapped the skill sets of migrants who have travelled back to their homes. There will be 25 different projects which will create job opportunities for migrants.
The 25 works under #GaribKalyanRojgarAbhiyaan have been chosen considering the skills of the migrant workers who have returned to villages
Here is a list of the works (1/n)- @MoRD_GOI pic.twitter.com/fMA32a75tB— PIB in Maharashtra 🇮🇳 (@PIBMumbai) June 18, 2020
Anganwadi centres, rural roads, rural housing, railway works, RURBAN Mission in rural areas which are taking shape of urban areas, solar pumpset, laying of fibre optic cables are various works included in the 25 public works Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, the FM said.
The release of money to villages such as allocation to rural local bodies as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission under the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, will provide work and enable asset creation in rural areas, powering rural development, Sitharaman said.
Mega Job Scheme for #migrantworkers to run for 125 days@nsitharaman #economy #NirmalaSitharaman pic.twitter.com/fKVGqMgKcG
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Activities which are otherwise spread over six months to a year are being front-loaded, so that there is no dearth of funds to execute these works during the 125 days of Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, said the Finance Minister.
The mega employment scheme will be launched on June 20 from Bihar's Khagaria district. The Centre plans to roll-out the scheme in 116 districts in 6 states which have received the largest numbers of workers from urban centres.
Addressing a curtain raiser press conference on launch of Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan, Sitharaman said that 25 existing schemes have been brought together to provide jobs to migrant workers. The total amount involved in the schemes is around Rs 50,000 crore that will be used for the Rojgar Abhiyaan and it will provide livelihood support for at least 125 days. The government will take a call after that if it needs to continue or not.
Here are the 116 districts across six states - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha - where the ₹ 50,000 crore #GaribKalyanRojgarAbhiyaan scheme for migrant workers will be implemented, for creating jobs and rural assets https://t.co/rShSKFOewu pic.twitter.com/9SA5GHvTmc
— PIB in Maharashtra 🇮🇳 (@PIBMumbai) June 18, 2020
The skill sets of the migrant labour has been mapped and work will be allocated according to that in those districts. The districts have been chosen where migrant workers population is at least 25,000.
(With inputs from IANS/PTI)
First Published: Jun 18, 2020 4:19 PM IST
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