Govt aims to embrace 32 mn construction hands not yet covered under PMGKY

Only 18 million workers out of 50 million got cash transfer in their bank accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana

Only about one-third of construction workers in India got cash transfer in their bank accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), prompting the central government to plan a mission-mode project to register those left out.

About 18 million construction workers got cash transfer benefits to cope up with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, out of an estimated 50 million such workers in India, according to the data compiled by the Union labour and employment ministry last month.

Apart from Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, where none of the estimated 6.7 million construction workers got cash transfer benefits, the coverage of