Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to initiate ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan’ on June 20 to give a boost to the livelihood opportunities in rural India. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan is a massive rural public works scheme which is aimed at empowering and providing livelihood opportunities to the returnee migrant workers and rural citizens. 

PM Narendra Modi will launch a massive Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan in six states on June 20 from Bihar to boost livelihood opportunities in Rural India for returnee migrants and rural citizens.

Designed to help those who have returned home amid pandemic, this scheme will be launched Telihar village, Khagaria district, Bihar. The state chief minister Nitish Kumar will be present in the virtual launch of ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan.’ The chief minister of five other states will also participate in the launch.

Spread over 125 days, this mission will implement various kinds of jobs to help migrant workers. The Centre has selected over 25,000 returned migrant laborers from 116 districts of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and Odisha for the campaign. These districts are estimated to cover about two-thirds of such migrant workers.

Narendra Modi will launch this Abhiyaan on 20th June 2020 at 11 am through Video-Conference

“Further, the Chief Ministers of other five States and Union Ministers of concerned Ministries will also participate in the virtual launch. The villages across 116 districts in the six States will join this program through the Common Service Centres and Krishi Vigyan Kendras, maintaining the norms of social distancing in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the government said in a statement.
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.The government said that this campaign of 125 days, which will work in mission mode, will involve intensified and focused implementation of 25 different types of works to provide employment to the migrant workers, on one hand, and create infrastructure in the rural regions of the country, on the other hand. A total of 116 districts with more than 25,000 returnee migrant workers across these six states have been chosen for the campaign which includes 27 aspirational districts. These districts are estimated to cover about two-thirds of such migrant workers.