'Rs 187.80 crore transferred to 18.78 lakh migrant workers of Bihar’

Madan Kumar | TNN | Updated: May 4, 2020, 10:51 IST

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PATNA: Altogether 18.78 lakh migrant workers of Bihar stranded in other states have so far been provided financial assistance under the Mukhya Mantri Vishesh Sahayata Yojana (MMVSY).
An amount of Rs 1,000 is transferred directly in the bank accounts of those migrant workers who apply online for assistance under the scheme.
“An amount of Rs1,000 each was transferred in the bank accounts of 18.78 lakh migrant people by the disaster management department (DMD) after verification of their applications,” state information and public relations department (IPRD) secretary Anupam Kumar said on Sunday.
Thus, a total amount of Rs187.80 crore has so far been transferred in the bank accounts of 18.78 lakh applicants under the scheme, he said.
As per data provided by the IPRD, maximum 1.43 lakh migrant workers from Madhubani district, followed by 1.21 lakh from Saran have so far been provided assistance of Rs1,000 each under the scheme.
More than 1.13 lakh migrant workers who originally hail from Muzaffarpur district and 1.03 lakh from East Champaran district were also provided financial assistance under the scheme.
Minimum number of beneficiaries hailed from smaller districts like Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai and Arwal. Only 11,106 stranded migrant workers from Sheikhpura district got assistance under the scheme, followed by Lakhisarai (11,506) and Arwal (11,972).
As per the data of the total beneficiaries, maximum 3.77 lakh migrant workers were stranded in NCR of Delhi, followed by 2.39 lakh in Haryana and 2.08 lakh in Maharashtra.
The MMVSY, meant to ease difficulty of migrant workers during the lockdown, was launched on April 6 this year by chief minister Nitish Kumar with transfer of Rs 10.35 crore in the bank accounts of more than 1.03 lakh stranded workers.