PM Modi: Time to strengthen poor, labourers and farmers



The second tranche of stimulus for the country's economy unveiled by the government on Thursday has a series of progressive measures and it will help the migrant workers and farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a Rs 3.16 lakh crore package of free foodgrains for migrant workers, concessional credit to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors as part of the second tranche of fiscal stimulus to heal an economy hit hard by the coronavirus-forced lockdown.

"Today's announcements by FM Nirmala Sitharaman will especially benefit our farmers and migrant workers," the prime minister tweeted.
The announcements, Modi pointed out, include a series of "progressive measures and will boost food security, credit to farmers as well as street vendors".

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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday evening said the coronavirus lockdown in the state will continue till May 31, though his government will lift the curfew restrictions.

"From May 18, there will be no curfew in the state. But the lockdown will be there till May 31," said the Chief Minister.


The date sheet for CBSE class 10 and 12 examinations will be released on May 18, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced in his tweet on Saturday.


Taking a quick action, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has suspended SHO of Fatehpur Sikri Agra, SHO of Kosi Kala Mathura, with immediate effect on the horrific road accident (Auraiya road accident) in Auraiya.  Apart from this, strict warning has been given to the concerned Deputy Superintendents of Police and Additional Superintendents of Police.


Due to lockdown some of the exams are postponed of CBSE of 10th and 12th that exams date sheet will be released today.Attention students, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has just tweeted that the revised date-sheet for CBSE Board exams will be out today. CBSE will release the date-sheet for class 10 and class 12 today at 5 pm.


Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the third tranche of the ₹ 20 lakh crore economic package today with a focus on agriculture, fisheries and allied activities.  During Lockdown, The Government Also Took Some Steps To Help India's Dairy CO-Operatives And Procured Large Amounts Milk Farmers.


The Indian Air Force may have to wait a few months for the four new Rafale Fighter Aircraft to be received from France. First, these aircrafts were to reach India in May, but now the work of the lockdown has been stalled due to Corona in Rafale Factory in France. France is one of the most affected countries from Corona. Here, 1 lakh 78 thousand 870 patients have been found here and 27 thousand 425 people have been killed.


Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will share the details related to the Corona Economic Package by holding a press conference for the third time today.  Nirmala Sitharaman can announce relief to the hospitality and travel-tourism industry at 4 pm today.  The condition of these two sectors is quite bad.  Let us know what is the condition of these sectors and what is the demand of the industry related to them…


World Bank has given great relief to India between the Corona Crisis. For government programs, the World Bank has announced a billion dollar package. This package will be a social security package to support the country's efforts for providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable people, severely impacted by the pandemic.


You must have seen a crowd of people in liquor shops between Coronavirus and Lockdown.  For this reason, many state governments had decided to close their local liquor shops or increase the prices.  Home delivery of alcohol is starting from today to deal with the problem of congestion.


After development in lab at ICMR-NIV, Pune, based on the potential of companies namely, SPAN, J MITRA, Zydus-Cadila and Cipla were offered to take up the production. Except Zydus-Cadila, 3 others refused to accept the offer. Zydus- Cadila, which is an innovation-driven health global company, accepted to produce the ELISA. This hve been named as 'COVID KAVACH ELISA'.


The World Health Organization on Wednesday said the novel coronavirus "may never go away" and that people will have to learn to live with it.  Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has infected a total of 43.47 lakh people in the world and 2.97 lakh patients have died.


Taking an important step, the Indian Railways has canceled the tickets booked for all travel trains till June 30.  Railways has said that fares for tickets canceled up to June 30 will be refunded.  Also, all special trains and Shramik trains will continue as before.  The railway gave information in this regard on Thursday morning.  Canceled trains include Mail / Express Rail.


8 migrant labourers died and over 54 suffered injuries after the truck they were travelling in was hit by a speeding bus in Madhya Pradesh's Guna early this morning.  The incident took place hours after a group of migrants were run over by a speeding bus in Uttar Pradesh. Whereas a roadways bus in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh crushed the workers on foot.  Six workers were killed and four were seriously injured in the accident.  Apart from this, two laborers were killed and 12 injured in a bus and truck collision in Samastipur in Bihar.


"Liquidity relief of Rs 2,500 crore to 72.22 lakh employees by extending EPF contribution for next 3 months". We extend government's support for another 3 months till August 2020. "Government will provide Rs 20,000 crore liquidity. For this scheme, NPAs or stressed MSMEs, all will be eligible". Said by Finance Minister. She said "Gareeb Kalyan Package will be announced after the lockdown".
"Over Rs 52,000 crore transferred into DBT accounts of 41 crore Jan Dhan holders".


Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address a press conference on Wednesday at 4 PM in New Delhi to provide the details of the Rs 20 lakh crore economic package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic and usher in an 'Aatmanirbhar' or self-reliant India. The special economic package will have an emphasis on land, labour, liquidity and laws, and will be for "our labourers, farmers, honest taxpayers, MSMEs and cottage industry", PM Modi said.


Lockdown is also falling on government employees. Recently the central government had stopped the increase in inflation allowance. Now another bad news is coming. About 16 lakh government employees may decrease up to Rs 5000. The Uttar Pradesh government has banned immediate effect on 6 perks to get their employees.

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