Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee Chairman cum State Finance and Food and Civic Supplies Minister Dr. Rameshwar Oraon has said that by May 31, all ration card holders will be transported food grains in the months of May and June. Dr. Oraon was talking to media persons after taking stock of the control room located at the State Congress Relief and Monitoring Committee at the party headquarters in Ranchi on Friday. Agriculture Minister Badal, Control Room convenor Pradeep Tulsian, State Congress Committee spokesperson Alok Kumar Dubey, Lal Kishorenath Shahdev, Rajesh Gupta Chhotu, Amarendra Kumar Singh and Professional Congress Aditya Vikram Jaiswal were present along with other leaders.
Oraon said that in the last lockdown, the then Union Minister Dr. Ram Vilas Paswan had decided to provide food grains to other needy families besides ration card holders. He said that in this regard, the Union Minister in-charge will talk to Piyush Goyal and demand to provide ration for all the poor. Dr. Oraon said that till May 31, five kilograms each of rice in the months of May and June will be made available to the houses of 57 lakh card holders and 13 lakh new ration card holders by May 31. Apart from this, the State government will also provide food grains to other poor.
On this occasion, Agriculture Minister Badal said that on May 1, Labor Day, migrant workers are returning from different parts of the country amidst the Corona crisis, all these migrant workers are received through the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development through the village-panchayats. Efforts will be made to provide employment in the State itself. He also admitted that some people are engaged in black marketing under the cover of Corona crisis, the government will take strict action against such people.
State spokespersons Lal Kishorenath Shahdev and Dr. Rajesh Gupta Chhotu said that 20 people were provided necessary medical advice and assistance through the Congress Helpdesk today. It mainly consists of Kunal Sarangi, Sandhya Jaiswal, Ashish Kumar, Saroj Kumari, Amitesh Mishra, Poonam Pathak, Neelam Kudada, Smriti Singh, Mithilesh Thakur, Raviranjan, Virender Kumar Singh, Veena Rani, Rajesh Kumar Gupta of Dhanbad, Rakesh Kumar of Ranchi Singh, Sanjeet Kumar, Suman Bhagat, Kanhai Chandra Dey, Shishir Kumar of Bokaro, Mahesh Prasad of Hazaribagh and Shakeel Ahmed of Jamshedpur.
Badal, chairman and chairman of the Vaccination Committee constituted by the State Congress Committee, took stock of the ongoing corona vaccination work in the assembly today. On this occasion, State Congress Committee spokesperson Alok Kumar Dubey, his wife Sonam Dubey, State Spokesperson Dr. Rajesh Gupta Chhotu, Amulya Neeraj Khalkho and Coordination Committee member Satish Paul Manjuli took the Covid-19 vaccine and appealed to people of the State to take the vaccine without any hesitation.