The Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Relief Monitoring Committee (JPCRMC) on Sunday sought special package from the Central Government before onset of monsoon so that the farmers can purchase seeds, fertilisers and to rehabilitate migrant workers returning the State.
JPCC Spokespersons, Lal Kishorenath Shahdeo and Alok Dubey said that the Central Government should provide a special package so that farmers could start their farming activity before onset of the monsoon season. The Central Government should also provide a fund so that the State Government could rehabilitate the migrant workers returning from other states to Jharkhand, they added.
JPCC COVID-19 Relief Monitering Committee also expressed gratitude to the State Government for providing ration to every poor and needy families in the period of lockdown-1 to 3 and serving 1.56 crore plates of meals across the State through Chief Minister Didi Kitchen.
"Under the guidance of JPCC Chief cum Food Supply and Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon, the Government was successful in providing food grains to every poor and needy family in the State. At the same time, under the leadership of Congress Legislature Party Leader cum Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam, The State Government has started various schemes in every Panchayat to provide employment to 2.90 lakh workers in the villages till now. Through these schemes, where the villagers are getting large number of jobs, the water economy and completion of MNREGA schemes will also strengthen the rural economy," said Shahdeo and Dubey.
Relief Monitoring Committee held a meeting in the control room under the chairmanship of senior member Mr. Pradeep Tulsian, in which members Alok Kumar Dubey, Lal Kishorenath Shahdev and Dr. Rajesh Gupta Chhotu were present. The problems of migrant laborers stranded in other parts of the country were also resolved through providing control ration to many needy through the control room.
Both the Spokespersons of the party in a joint statment said that the State Government has done commendable effort to ensure the return of every migrant laborers. "A large number of migrant laborers returned from the most infected states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh for them the Government has made special arrangement for the scanning. On the other hand, in order to provide relief to the inter-district migrant laborers trapped in various districts of Jharkhand, the Care Committee also registered and interacted with such labors over the phone," they added.
A meeting was held on Sunday at Congress Bhawan, Ranchi under the chairmanship of the committee's convenor Madan Mohan Sharma, in which Surendra Singh, Narendra Lal Gopi and Tapeshwar Nath Mishra have started the process of sending the trapped labourers back home.