Highlights: Food, housing, jobs for poor in FM's new measures for lockdown

Migrant workers, small farmers and street vendors get attention in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's new announcements.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a second set of measures that are part of a Rs 20 trillion fiscal and monetary package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support India’s economy, which has been battered by a 51-day lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak.

"Today's initiatives focus on migrant workers, street vendors, small traders, the self-employed & small farmers," said Sitharaman at a press conference in Delhi. She listed nine steps for these sections of the society.

Here are highlights from her press conference:

1. Free food grain for migrant workers

• Free food grain supply to all migrant