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The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday announced a package of more than Rs 353 crore for giving cash handouts to estimated 3.53 million daily wage earners, including labourers, who are likely to be impacted owing to job losses following the coronavirus outbreak.
These beneficiaries, comprising about 2.03 million labourers registered with the labour department and 1.5 million rickshaw pullers, hawkers and kiosk owners, would be paid a lump sum of Rs 1,000 crore directly into their bank accounts.
Recently, a high-level committee headed by UP finance minister Suresh Khanna and also comprising the agriculture and labour ministers was constituted to analyse the
