What is Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan — the ₹50,000 crore which aims to provide jobs to migrant workers in India

• PM Modi launched 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan' on June 18 to boost livelihood opportunities in rural India, especially in 116 districts in six states.
• These six states are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and Odisha.
• Under this scheme, the government says it will provide 25 kinds of employment to migrant labourers.
  
  

PM Modi is set to launch 'Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan' officially on June 20 to boost livelihood opportunities in rural India, Prime Minister’s office announced today claiming that the campaign of 125 days across 116 districts in 6 states will help migrant workers.

These six states are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and Odisha. These 116 districts are those where at least 25,000 migrant workers have returned in each case.

Under this scheme, the government says it will provide 25 kinds of employment to migrant labourers — who went back home to different states during lockdown. The government earlier announced that it will spend ₹50,000 crore and involve 12 different ministries — Panchayati Raj, Railways, Petroleum and natural gas, Telecommunication and agriculture among others.

These are the highlights from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s press conference on June 18:

• “What this abhiyan that the PM will be launching from the Khagaria district Bihar will do is to, nearly 25 schemes of the government will be brought together, and we will reach saturation level for all these programmes in 125 days,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
• We are pooling ₹50,000 crore from these 25 projects, migrant workers who have returned will all be used to complete these projects in 125 days. Some projects may be affected due to monsoons, e.g. road construction. Some of the projects will continue post monsoons too.