UP to give Rs 1,000 maintenance allowance to 1.5 crore workers

To provide relief to the poor suffering from economic slowdown due to coronavirus pandemic,Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanath will provide amaintenance allowanceto the tune of Rs 1,500 crore to 1.5 crore labourers and construction workers.
The government will provide two-month allowance of Rs 1,000 to workers to tide over the financial crisis. There are

5,09,08,745 registered workers in the state out of whom, the number of unorganized workers registered on the e-SHRAM portal are 3,81,60,725. The total number of workers registered under BOCW Board are 1,27,48,020.

In the first phase, maintenance allowance will be sent to the bank accounts of nearly two crore workers, small shopkeepers, daily wage labourers, rickshaw/e-rickshaw pullers, porters, barbers, washermen, cobblers and confectioners.