<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, the government is strictly managing &nbsp;Lockdown for containing of Covid-19 and also committed for people's welfare.<br />''<br />'' Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said nobody should remain hungry due to lockdown. The government will provide jobs to the labourers returned from cities under MGNREGA scheme.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, the government has online transferred more than 611 crore rupees in the the accounts of more than twenty seven lakh MG NREGA workers. The &nbsp;government has also &nbsp;send 871 crore rupees in the accounts of pension holders under various schemes &nbsp;in state. It has been decided that Government will provide work under MGNREGS scheme to labourers returned from various cities. Rural &nbsp;Department has order that after 20 April NREGA &nbsp;works will be started outside the areas of &nbsp;containment zones of Corona.<br />''<br />''Principal Secretary of Rural Development Manoj Kumar Singh said that the works under MGNREGA will be carried out according to guidelines of union government. The laborers &nbsp;who do not have job cards of MGNREGA will be provided the job cards instantly so that they do not &nbsp;have to go for jobs at other places.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath &nbsp;has instructed for giving honorarium and wages to the temporary laborers and workers who could not attend their workplaces due to lockdown.</span><br />
News On AIR | April 19, 2020 8:55 AM
Nobody should remain hungry due to lockdown: CM Yogi Adityanath