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C M C M Y B Y B RNI No: JKENG/2012/47637 Email: [email protected] POSTAL REGD NO- JK/485/2016-18 Internet Edition www.truthprevail.com Truth Prevail Epaper: epaper.truthprevail.com Kohli & boys handed customised indoor workout routines 3 5 12 People’s health is my prime concern Amidst Corona lockdown, BJP started Cabinet Secretary holds VC with Chief Secretaries : Advisor Baseer Khan distributing ration among needy in J&K to review supply, transportation of essential goods VOL: 9 Issue: 76 JAMMU AND KASHMIR, FRIDAy , MARCH 27, 2020 DAILy PAGES 12 Rs. 2/- Inside Financial package will go a long Inside Coronavirus lockdown: Govt to provide 5 kg grains, way in ensuring food, livelihood Ensure Coronavirus security of poor : PM Modi crisis doesn’t turn 1 kg pulses for free over next 3 months : FM New Delhi, March 26 : nationwide lockdown. into water crisis : New Delhi, March 26 : ment would deliberate on ame - wages will be increased to Rs States have been asked to crore families Prime Minister Narendra The lockdown imposed to The government on Thursday liorating problems faced by 202 a day from Rs 182 to ben - utilise Rs 31,000 crore with *FM announces an ex-gra - Modi on Thursday said the check the spread of coron - PHE urges public announced a Rs 1,70,000 crore people who are enduring wage efit 5 crore families with an Construction Welfare Fund for tia of Rs 1,000 to 3 cr poor sen - financial package announced avirus came into force on JAMMU, MARCH 26 : package for the next three cuts or had to pay EMIs while expected wage increase of 3.5 crore registered construc - ior citizen, poor widows and by his government Public Health Engineering months for the vulnerable sec - they had been asked to stay at tion workers. poor disabled to deal with the Department today issued an tions of the population. home without salaries. HIGHLIGHTS: *20 cr women Jan Dhan impact of the coron - advisory and urged public to Bundled under the PM The government has decid - *Economic stimulus Account holders to get Rs 500 avirus lockdown ensure judicious use of Gareeb Kalyan Scheme, the ed to provide a temporary finalised to deal with impact of per month for next three will go a long way in water following the Covid relief package comprises three-month insurance cover of corona lockdown, says FM months to help them run their ensuring food and Coronavirus scare in Jammu cash transfers as well as food Rs 50 lakh for all frontline Nirmala Sitharaman. households livelihood security and Kashmir. security which would be imple - Covid health staff, including *Rs 50 lakh per person *Ujjwala beneficiaries to of the poor. Stressing on maintaining mented from April 1, Union doctors, paramedics and health insurance cover for doctors, get free cooking gas (LPG) "It is our firm the hygiene by washing Finance Minister Nirmala care workers. paramedic, healthcare workers cylinders in next three months; resolve that the poor hands with soap for twenty Sitharaman said here. In food security, dealing with coronavirus out - this will benefit 8.3 crore BPL and vulnerable get seconds, the advisory said it Asked if there would be Sitharaman said 80 crore peo - about Rs 2,000 per worker. Ex break families all possible help to is incumbent upon every more such packages for other ple would get free 5 kg wheat gratia of Rs 1,000 in two instal - *80 cr poor people will get *Collateral-free loan dou - cope with the testing individual to ensure that tap vulnerable classes, Sitharaman or rice over and above the ments will be given to three 5 kg wheat or rice and 1 kg of bled to Rs 20 lakh to 63 lakh times," Modi tweet - water remains closed for said this was the government’s existing allotment and 1 kg of crore poor senior citizens, poor preferred pulses for free every women self-help groups; to ed. those twenty seconds so that first response within 36 hours preferred pulses every month widows and poor disabled. As month for the next three impact 7 crore households He said the Pradhan Wednesday. Coronavirus crisis doesn’t of the lockdown. “At this for the next three months. “We many as 20 crore women Jan months *Govt to pay employee, Mantri Garib Kalyan Package As part of the package, an turn into water crisis. moment, we reach out to the don’t want anyone to remain Dhan Account holders will get *FM announces Rs 1.7 lakh employer contribution to PF will go a long way in ensur - insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh The advisory further said poorest of the poor. We will hungry. We will be giving Rs 500 per month for the next crore Pradhan Mantri Gareeb for 3 months for establishment ing their food and livelihood per health worker fighting by turning-off the tap during obviously think about the other enough to take care of require - three months to help them run Kalyan scheme to help the with 90 pc of staff with Rs security. COVID-19 will be provided. 20 seconds of hand washing, things,’’ she added. ment of grains. They should their households. needy 15,000 wage The government on Eighty crore poor people 2 liters of water can be Earlier, Sitharaman had also not remain without money Ujjwala beneficiaries will *Govt to front-load Rs *Workers to be allowed to Thursday announced the Rs will get 5 kg wheat or rice and saved and a family of five relaxed compliance require - in their hands,’’ she explained. be given free LPG cylinders for 2,000 paid to farmers in first draw non-refundable advance 1.7-lakh crore stimulus that 1 kg of preferred pulses for individuals would save 100 ments relating to direct and For farmers, the the next three months which week of April under existing of 75 pc from credit in PF a/c included free foodgrain and free every month for the next liters per day. indirect taxes and life and gGovernment has decided to will benefit 8.3 crore BPL fam - PM Kishan Yojana to benefit or 3 months salary, whichever cooking gas to the poor for three months. Urging responsible citi - health insurance policies to front-load Rs 2,000 paid to ilies. Collateral-free loan will 8.69 cr farmers is lower Rs 1.7 lakh crore eco - three months, and cash doles Twenty crore women Jan zens to conserve tap water, address the Covid-related dis - 8.69 crore farmers in first week be doubled to Rs 20 lakh to 63 *FM announces increase in nomic package will be imple - to women and senior citizens Dhan account holders will get the advisory said that it turbances. of April under the existing PM lakh women self-help groups, MNREGA wage to Rs 202 a mented with immediate effect; as it looked to ease the eco - Rs 500 per month for next would ensure adequate Sitharaman said the govern - Kisan Yojana. MNREGA impacting 7 crore households. day from Rs 182 to benefit 5 cash doles from April 1. nomic impact of the 21-day three months. water supply for health workers and communities who are fighting hard to pre - Probe ordered into 'mishandling' of Covid COVID-19: Rahul Gandhi hails govt, says Centre's No evidence of community vent the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. financial package is first step in right direction transmission in India, says govt In case of grievances or positive patient who died today Srinagar, March 26 : Hospital Bemina on 21-03- NEW DELHI : Congress by the deadly coronavirus Minister Gareeb Kalyan New Delhi, March 26 : effective intervention in complaints regarding water Member of Parliament Rahul pandemic. scheme" will "address the supply, people can call PHE The authorities in Kashmir 2020 at 08.30 AM alongwith The Health Ministry on breaking chain of coron - have ordered a probe into his travel history was found Gandhi on Thursday (March Rahul's party has been concerns of poor, migrant Thursday said that 17 states avirus transmission". toll free number 1800-180- 26, 2020) lauded the Narendra demanding an economic workers and those who need 7045; Jammu: 9419186479, the alleged mishandling of to be a COVID-19 suspect," have started work on ear - The number of coron - the Covid positive patient reads the order by the Modi government for package in view of the coron - help", she said. The FM also marking hospitals for dedi - avirus cases climbed to 649 Kashmir: 0194-2477207. announcing the Rs 1.7 lakh avirus spread and the subse - announced Rs 50 lakh per per - C M from Hyderpora who died in Divisional Commissioner. cated treatment of COVID- in India on Thursday and C M a hospital today. "The report further crore financial package to quent lockdown. On son insurance cover for doc - 19 patients. the death toll due to Y B Two new coronavirus The inquiry has been reveals that knowing the protect the weaker sections of Thursday, party interim presi - tors, paramedic and health - Briefing the press on the COVID-19 rose to 13, with y B ordered by Divisional travel history of the patient the society from the economic dent Sonia Gandhi wrote a let - care workers dealing with coronavirus situation, one death reported each cases in Punjab, Commissioner Kashmir to and observing the symptoms fallout of deadly coronavirus coronavirus outbreak. The PM Health Ministry joint secre - from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu know if the protocol was of the patient, the Hospital COVID-19, which has Garib Kalyan Yojana will tary Lav Agarwal said, and Madhya Pradesh, total count 33 followed in case of Administration has not claimed the lives of over benefit migrant workers and "There is still no hard evi - according to the Health CHANDIGARH, COVID19 patient from brought it into the notice of 21,000 people across the rural poor and the women.