UP loosens Covid Care Fund purse strings for cash support to migrants

CM Adityanath transfers money to accounts of 1.05 million migrant families

Amid the influx of nearly 3.5 million migrants following covid-19 lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government has loosened the purse strings of UP Covid Care Fund to provide cash support to such workers.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath today transferred Rs 1,000 each to the bank accounts of almost 1.05 million migrant families, totalling roughly Rs 105 crore in the relief amount.

UP additional chief secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi said Covid Care Fund was used to provide the monetary support to the state migrant workers.

“The revenue department has been asked to collect the bank details of another million migrant workers, so that they could