Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday said that after complete lockdown, the Government was ensuring that people of the State, especially poor labourers and workers in non government sector do not face any problem.
Talking to reporters, Thakur said that keeping in view the situation of Coronavirus in the Himachal Pradesh, the State Government has lockdown the state to prevent the spread of this epidemic.
Thakur said to provide relief assistance to the needy and poor, the State Government has decided to provide several relief measures, with an expenditure of approximately Rs. 500 crore.
He said about 5.34 lakh social security pension holders of the state would be issued first quarter pension in the first week of April, 2020, which includes about 1.25 lakh widows and disability pension holders, for whom monthly pension has been increased from Rs. 850 to Rs. 1000.
He said that the Department for the Empowerment of Schedule Castes, Other Backward Classes, Minorities and Specially Abled has also been directed to take immediate steps to provided pension to 50 thousand new eligible persons soon.
The Chief Minister said that increased honorarium would be released from 1st April 2020 to workers working in various government departments in the state.
Thakur said that it has also been decided to provide one-time relief of Rupees two thousand to nearly one lakh fifty thousand workers registered with the Building and Construction Workers Board. He said that two months of flour and rice would be given to targeted public distribution system card holders, simultaneously.