Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will on Monday provide a ‘Maintenance Allowance’ of Rs 1,500 crore to 1.50 crore laborers and construction workers, with the intention of providing relief to the poor suffering due to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. ,
Working with the mantra of saving both ‘life and livelihood’, the Uttar Pradesh government will provide two months’ allowance of Rs 1,000 to each such worker to tide over the economic crisis during the pandemic. The total number of registered workers in the state is 5,09,08,745. Out of these, the number of unorganized workers registered on the e-shram portal is 3,81,60,725 and the total number of workers registered under the BOCW board is 1,27,48,020.
In the first phase, maintenance allowance will be sent to the bank accounts of a total of two crore workers. The Yogi government has also distributed maintenance allowance to small shopkeepers, daily wage workers, rickshaw/e-rickshaw pullers, porters, barbers, washermen, cobblers and confectioners etc.
Since the second wave of Covid-19 was much more contagious than the first, it caused more havoc. That section of the society, such as small shopkeepers, daily wage labourers, rickshaw/e-rickshaw pullers, porters, barbers, washermen, cobblers, confectioners, handicraft drivers, construction workers, fruit and vegetable vendors, whose family’s livelihood depended on a daily basis. The income of his head was hit hardest by the pandemic.
Apart from ensuring facilities like free COVID-19 vaccines, free tests and free treatment for the poor, the government also ensured the provision of other basic facilities.
Maintenance allowance was provided twice to organized sector workers and once to unorganized sector workers. Along with this, ration was made available twice a month through Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana and Public Distribution System, eliminating the obligation of ration card.
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