Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) is putting its all efforts to combat against COVID-19 and safeguarding life and livelihood of the people of the State. The Party has been has been in alert mode since the initial signs of the Covid-19 started emerging and helping people by distributing food grains and other since announcement of lockdown to break the Corona virus chain, said JPCC chief Rameshwar Oraon.
Oraon on Wednesday said that the Government of Jharkhand is working in accordance with the sentiments of the common people, under the supervision of Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and JPCC In-charge, RPN Singh, the party workers across the State continuously through various committees are providing required help to needy and poor during the time of epidemic on the other hand the Government is making a comprehensive plan to provide health and employment to migrant labourers coming from outside the State.
Oraon said that the people of the Country and the State are constantly seeking answers to how much money was received in the Prime Minister's Care Fund and where that money was spent. "The common people of the Country also want to know from the Prime Minister that what the poor, needy, migrant laborers and lower middle class family got from the economic package announced by the Central Government," he added.
Oraon wrote a letter to the Union Food Supply Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan to provide ration to cardholders till December and for those who applied for the card.
JPCC Spokesperson Lal Kishoreaath Shahdeo told that in a letter to the Union Food Supply Minister, Oraon said that during the rainy season, the farmer face problem of shortage of food grains and at present a large numbers of migrant laborers returned to the State in such a situation shortage of food grain will increase, so that the cooperation of the Central Government is needed.
Meanwhile, The State unit of the Private Schools and Children's Welfare Association on Wednesday distributed Towel, Masks, Sanitizers and Food items among Corona warriors and five hundred of poor families.
Speaking as Chief Guest on the occasion, Oraon said that the State Government worked to provide food grains to every needy families amidst the nationwide complete lockdown imposed due to outbreak of Corona virus and financial assistance was provided to the migrant workers trapped in different parts of the Country and they were brought back in the State by air, train.
The State Government provided employment them through MGNREGA and other schemes, said Oraon.