Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) on Monday demanded Central Government to provide more aid to the State for distribuution of free of cost food grains among poor and needy for next six months. The Central Government should open the door of Food Corporation of India (FCI) so that the poor farmers could get food in coming monsoon season, he said.
Talking to media persons JPCC Chief and Finance Minister of the State, Rameshwar Oraon said that monsoon is coming and the farmers will have to face two main challenges, one to arrange seeds, fertilisers and other resources for their farming work and other to arrange food and ration to feed their family members. He urged the Central Government to provide maximum assistance to the farmers during the hour of pandemic so that their livelihood could not affected.
“The State Government will not only provide employment to the migrant workers who have returned home but also it will give job to all the workers living in Jharkhand to deal with the crisis arising out of the lockdown,” said Oraon.
The Finance Minister said that now the monsoon is coming so the work related to soil will have to stop along with the works which going on under MNREGA and rural road construction plans will also be closed. But the State Government will provide employment to the people by planting saplings across the State during the rainy season, he added.
Oraon said that plantation work will not only provide employment to people but will also increase greenery. The construction work goes on during the rainy season, the Government will give complete relaxation in the construction work and will also help in providing cement, rods sand and other necessities to the people, he added.
“The Central Government announced lockdown-5 and provided many relaxations and at the ame time it has been passed the responsibility on to the State Governments. Under the leadership of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, concrete strategies are being chalked out to give impetus to future activities, economic activities and to provide employment to the State's workers and returning home based migrant workers according to their efficiency,” said Oraon.
He said that the speed of revenue collection has also slowed down due to the lockdown, in such a situation the Government is constantly striving to provide employment to the people by providing more funds for development schemes and to promote micro and small scale industries.