GUWAHATI: Assam health minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma informed that 3,61,170 people stranded outside the state due to COVID-19-induced lockdown have been benefited by the financial assistance provided under the Assam Cares initiative by the state government.
Addressing a press meet in Guwahati on Thursday Dr. Sarma said, “We released Rs. 72.23 crore to provide Rs. 2000 to the stranded people as the first instalment. We are sending the second instalment and we are the only state to do so. The third instalment will be sent in next month.”
Assam is the only state in the country to provide the second instalment to the stranded citizens.
Taking to Twitter, Dr. Sarma stated, “In the second instalment of the same, Rs 2000 each will be transferred to bank accounts of remaining beneficiaries on May 22.”
Total 3,61,170 people stranded outside Assam have been benefitted by the financial assistance provided by GoA so far.
In the second installment of the same, Rs 2000 each will be transferred to bank accounts of remaining beneficiaries on May 22. #AssamCares
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 21, 2020
Similarly, the Assam Government is also providing the second instalment of Rs. 25 thousand each to the patients suffering from critical diseases and stranded within the country. With the disbursement of the second instalment on may 22, the total number of the beneficiaries will reach 887.
With the second installment of 25K each as financial assistance to patients suffering from critical diseases & stranded within country due to #COVID19, we would have reached to a total of 887 beneficiaries on May 22.#AssamCares #IndiaFightsCOVID19
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 21, 2020
