PM Modi’s GKRA to Resolve Rampant Job Crisis in Rural India

Among various other major relief to the large chunk of migrant workers across the nation, the Union Finance Minister, N Sitharaman, has on Thursday said that the government would pool almost 25 different projects that would offer jobs to migrant workers.

The Union will front-load a sum of Rs 50,000 crore for the cause. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) aims to create infrastructure and jobs in rural areas of the country and is set to be launched on June 20, 2020 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government said that the campaign will be run on a mission mode for 125 days, involving intensified and focused implementation of 25 different types of works to provide jobs to the migrant workers. The campaign also aims to create infrastructure worth Rs 50,000 crore in the rural regions across 116 districts in 6 states. The villages across 116 districts in the six states will join the campaign through the common service centers and krishi vigyan kendras. The Prime Minister Office informed that these 116 districts comprise more than 25,000 returnee migrant workers across six states, which are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha, and are estimated to cover about two-thirds of migrant workers.