New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced the launch of ‘one nation one ration card’ as part of the second tranche of her economic package to benefit migrant labourers.
FM also announced that the Centre will also provide free food grains to those migrants who have no ration cards for the next two months.
Migrants who are neither registered under national food security act or state card beneficiaries will be provided 5 kg of grains per person and 1 kg chana per family per month for two months, Sitharaman announced.
The Centre estimates that about eight crore migrants will benefit from the move to provide free grains. Rs 3,500 crore will be spent on this intervention for two months, informed the finance minister.
The cost for this will be fully borne by the Centre. The State governments, however will be responsible for implementation, identification of migrants, full distribution and coming up with the required guidelines she said.
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