Covid-19 impact: Karnataka to provide financial aid to migrant workers

Announces Rs 3,000 each for construction workers as part of a Rs 1,630 crore Covid-19 relief package

Hours after cancelling all trains ferrying migrant workers to their home states, the Karnataka government on Wednesday announced a Rs 1,630 crore Covid-19 relief package, which included financial assistance of Rs 3,000 each to construction workers. This will be made available to 1.58 million registered building workers in the state, the government said.
 
“This is over and above the Rs 2,000 that is already being transferred to their accounts,” said Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa in a tweet on Wednesday.
 
When asked if this amount would be enough for migrant labourers to sustain if factories do not resume