India: Cash transfers, free foodgrains for poor in Rs 1.7 lakh

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com (27.03.2020) NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday announced a Rs 1.7 lakh crore package focused on emergency cash transfers into bank accounts of the poor, along with providing free foodgrains, pulses and cooking gas for three months in a bid to cushion them from the impact of the coronavirus lockdown and economic disruption caused by the disease. 

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- cash transfers into bank accounts of the porr

- in-kind benefits (food) in the form of foodgrains and cooking gas for three months

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