{"id":14523,"date":"2020-03-27T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14523"},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:03:12","slug":"finance-minister-announces-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-yojana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/finance-minister-announces-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-yojana\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister announces Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a Rs 1.70 lakh crore \u2018Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana\u2019 relief package<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aim<\/strong>: To provide relief to the urban and rural poor amid Coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Components:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Insurance scheme for health workers<\/strong>: Health professionals in Government Hospitals and Health Care Centres to be compensated with an amount of Rs 50 lakh.<\/li><li><strong>PM Garib Kalyan Ann (\u0905\u0928\u094d\u0928) Yojana<\/strong>: 80 crore individuals to be provided double of their current entitlement of foodgrains over next three months<\/li><li><strong>Benefit to farmers:<\/strong> First instalment of Rs 2,000 due in 2020-21 will be paid in April 2020 under the PM KISAN Yojana.<\/li><li><strong>Help to Poor:<\/strong> 20.40 crores PMJDY women account-holders would be given extra Rs 500 per month for next three months.<\/li><li><strong>Gas cylinders:<\/strong> gas cylinders, free of cost, would be provided to 8 crore poor families for the next three months.<\/li><li><strong>Help to low wage earners in organised sectors<\/strong>: 24% of monthly wages to be paid into PF accounts of wage-earners below Rs 15,000 per month in businesses having less than 100 workers, for next three months.<\/li><li><strong>Support for senior citizens (above 60 years), widows and Divyang<\/strong>: Rs 1,000 to be paid during next three months.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MNREGA<\/strong>:&nbsp; wages would be increased by Rs 20 with effect from 1 April, 2020\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a Rs 1.70 lakh crore \u2018Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana\u2019 relief package Facts: Aim: To provide relief to the urban and rural poor amid Coronavirus pandemic Components: Insurance scheme for health workers: Health professionals in Government Hospitals and Health Care Centres to be compensated with an amount of Rs 50&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/finance-minister-announces-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-yojana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finance Minister announces Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7711],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-yojana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704935445},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}