No Bengal District Included In Migrants Job Scheme As State Did Not Share Data: Nirmala Sitharaman

New Delhi:

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday stated that West Bengal govt didn’t percentage knowledge of returning migrant labourers with the Centre and no district of the state might be integrated as a beneficiary beneath the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan (PMGKRA).

She used to be answering a question through Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Lok Sabha.

“High Minister Narendra Modi initiated PMGKRA for migrant labourers who got here again to their villages throughout the coronavirus-induced lockdown. This scheme used to be presented on June 20 this 12 months and shall be efficient for 125 days,” she stated.

The minister stated 116 districts unfold throughout six states – Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are taking advantage of this scheme.

“The number of the districts used to be made at the foundation of the go back of a minimum of 25,000 migrant labourers to the involved districts through Would possibly 30,” she stated.

“After the release of PMGKRA, there have been calls for from Tripura and Chhattisgarh to incorporate extra districts however it used to be now not entertained. In terms of West Bengal, there used to be no knowledge shared through the state govt then how may just the districts of the state be integrated within the scheme. The state govt additionally denied access to the migrant labourers in West Bengal in positive instances,” she added.

The scheme used to be introduced to offer employment alternatives in rural spaces for migrant staff.