Naveen announces special Covid package worth Rs 1690.46 crore for poor
Published By : Prameya News Bureau | June 17, 2021 IST
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Bhubaneswar, June 17: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced Covid assistance worth Rs 1690.46 crore for landless farmers, construction workers, people living below poverty line, primitive groups and NREGA workers. The CM said that people from all sections of life have been badly affected by the Covid pandemic. However, poor people are the worst affected from financial point of view. “The state has remained under lockdown for past two months due to the second wave of coronavirus. This has broken their backbone for which the government has come up with the Covid assistance,” said Patnaik. Under the special package each beneficiary of KALIA scheme will get assistance of Rs 1000. Similarly registered construction workers will get assistance of Rs 1500 each. Besides each family belonging to the primitive groups will also get Rs 5000.
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