PM readies Tk 880cr cash assistance for the indegent
The prime minister's cash assistance for the indegent and jobless people hit by the second wave of Covid-19 will begin to roll in on May 2.
Beneath the programme, Tk 880 crore will be distributed among 35 lakh families.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the programme, according to a statement from the finance ministry.
Each family are certain to get Tk 2,500 and the fund will be directly used in the receiver's mobile checking account or bank-account through the electronic money transfer system.
Last year, an initiative was taken up to give Tk 2,500 each to 50 lakh families. However, 15 lakh families were later excluded because of various irregularities. The most recent assistance will be given to those who got it last year.
"Because of the outbreak of the global epidemic, persons of our country need to follow the hygiene rules to save lots of their lives," the statement said.
Because of this, low-income workers plus some people engaged in informal work have become unemployed.
The prime minister has taken steps to provide financial assistance to protect the country's poorest persons from unemployment and lack of income as a result of coronavirus, it added.
To bring the extremely poor, jobless and low-income persons under the benefit of the programme, disaster-prone, extremely poor areas and population ratios have already been taken into account while allocating money.
In particular, it's been ensured that low-income persons like day labourers, farmers, transport personnel and so on get this financial assistance.
The people have already been identified using it so that only the real extremely poor individuals are certain to get this money, the statement said.
