Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Relief Monitoring Committee (JPCRMC) on Monday demanded that in this time of crisis, the Central Government should provide special package to Jharkhand and immediately make available the outstanding money of Goods and Services Tax.
JPCRMC led by Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) Chief and Food and Civic Supply Minister, Rameshwar Oraon chaired a meeting at the control room set up at the party here on Friday. Leader of Congress Legislative Party and Rural Development Minister, Alamgir Alam, Health Minister, Banna Gupta and Agriculture Minister, Badal Patralekh, MP Dheeraj Prasad Sahu, Senior Congress Leader Raushan Lal Bhatia, Pradeep Tulsyan, Alok Kumar Dubey, Lal Kishore Nath Shahdev and Rajesh Gupta were present.
State Spokesman Alok Kumar Dubey said that the Government is doing its job to fight against global epidemic- Corona virus and at the same time the party is also discharging its duty.
Dubey said that besides 58 lakh ration cardholders in the State, eight lakh families applied for ration cards and lakhs of families living below the poverty line are being provided food grains at the rate of Rs one a kg. "Besides, food is being provided to millions of people every day through community kitchens built at all the Police Stations in all the Districts. In addition to this, packets of flattened rice-jaggery have also been arranged in every district to provide relief to people in case of emergency," he added.
During the meeting in attempt to implement all aforesaid schemes on the ground JPCC Chief, Oraon constructed a committee of the party office bearers following the directive of Congress high command.
Oraon said that despite all such plans, if any person could not get facility of the schemes provided by the State Government then relief work will be done to the person on behalf of the Party. However, in addition to all necessary services from the State Government, to provide animal feed the State Government has made special arrangements, he added.
"Apart from all these necessary steps have been taken to provide the kitchen gas cylinders to those families in the previous Government who were received the benefit of Ujjwala scheme," said Oraon. The JPCC Chief further said that in this time of crisis only holding video conferencing will not solve the problem, in the forest areas it needs special attention.