Transfer Funds in the Account of Construction Workers Through DBT: Santosh Kumar Gangwar

MoS Ministry of Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar issued an advisory to all states & UTs to transfer funds in the account of construction workers through DBT mode.
About Rs 52,000 crores is available as cess fund and about 3.5 crore construction workers are registered with these construction welfare boards.
Earlier Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to PM Modi and urged him to help construction workers.
In the letter, she wrote, "I request you to consider advising the state-building and other construction welfare boards to roll out emergency wage support for the construction workers who are in distress."
The number of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus has reached 492 and 10 deaths have been reported so far.

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