NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government will launch a massive rural public works scheme — Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan — on 20 June to provide livelihood to migrant workers and rural citizen.
The campaign involves 125 days of work and will have “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, with a resource envelope of ₹50,000 crore,” the statement said.