New Delhi:
Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Wednesday attacked the federal government over its help to the poor below the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, alleging that cash given was “niggardly and completely inadequate”.
The Finance Ministry on Tuesday mentioned greater than 42 crore individuals have obtained Rs 68,820-crore monetary help below the federal government’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana to guard the poor and susceptible from the influence of the COVID-19 disaster.
As a part of the Rs 1.70 lakh crore PMGKP, introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on March 26, the federal government introduced free foodgrains and money fee to girls, poor senior residents and farmers.
Attacking the federal government, Mr Chidambaram requested, “How a lot did every beneficiary get below the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana? Was it ”reduction” in any actual sense or tokenism?”
Underneath the Nationwide Social Help Programme (NSAP), 2.81 crore individuals received Rs 2,814 crore or Rs 1,000 per particular person, the previous finance minister mentioned and requested, “May that sum have saved physique and soul collectively”.
“Jan Dhan account holding girls (20.6 crore) received Rs 30,925 crore or Rs 1,500 every over three months. May a homemaker have run a household on Rs 500 a month?” he mentioned in a sequence of tweets.
“Migrants (2.66 crore) received 2.67 lakh MT of meals grains over 2 months. That’s 5 kg per 30 days. May it have sustained a migrant and his household? The numbers show that the cash given was niggardly and completely inadequate,” Mr Chidambaram mentioned.
“And positively, the cash couldn’t have acted as a ”stimulus” to spice up demand and revive the economic system,” he added.
Underneath the ”Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan”, the federal government introduced provide of free meals grains and chana to migrants for 2 months, and the estimate of variety of migrants supplied by the states was about 2.eight crore.
“Throughout the distribution interval as much as August, whole 2.67 LMT of meals grains was distributed to five.32 crore migrants. This works out to a mean of about 2.66 crore beneficiaries per 30 days, which is sort of 95 per cent of the estimated variety of migrants,” the ministry had mentioned.
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