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₹20 trln package: Free food grains to 80 mln migrant workers for two months
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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said about 80 million migrant workers, not covered under central or state food distribution systems, will be given free rice, wheat and gram or chickpea for the next two months.
The measure will cost the central government ₹3,500 crores. Sitharaman said the idea is to ensure food supply to people who are not covered under the national food security law or under any state government schemes.
The measure addresses one of the biggest gaps in ensuring food supplies as a lot of people who migrate to cities for work do not have public distribution system cards in places where they work The government had already announced additional allocation of rice and wheat under PDS. "The addition
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