Lockdown 4.0: Government of Assam’s New Guidelines for COVID-19 With effect from May 18.
Assam Health and Finance minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma pressmeet key points:
1/10 Held a press meet along with @BJP4Assam President Sri @RanjeetkrDass to spell out how Assam shall draw synergy from Hon PM Sri @narendramodi‘s stimulus package of Rs 20 Lakh Cr. We’re geared up to pursue PM’s clarion call for आत्मनिर्भर भारत. #AtmaNirbharAssam pic.twitter.com/qTXqvhn4Kw
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
2/10 Heartening that @FinMinIndia has taken a number of steps to enhance credit availability with banks so that they continue to lend loans to all strategic & needy sectors of economy incl infra, agriculture, MSMEs. This credit growth shall propel development. @nsitharaman pic.twitter.com/ZtkTVoHyWT
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
3/10 PM Garib Kalyan Yojana has provision for 5 kg wheat or rice per person & 1 kg pulse per family for 3 months; Rs 500 per Jan Dhan ac holder per month; free gas cylinder to poor families; increase in MNREGA to Rs 202; ex gratia of Rs 1000 to poor sr citizens. #AtmaNirbharAssam
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
4/10 Assam’s 66,000 MSMEs shall immensely benefit from GOI’s massive relief measures incl Rs 3 lakh cr as emergency working capital, Rs 50,000 cr through equity infusion, release of all payables from CPSEs. Golden opportunity for state’s enterprises to thrive.#AtmaNirbharAssam pic.twitter.com/VY4scZOU6J
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
5/10 Grateful to PM Sri @narendramodi for allocating an addl Rs 40,000 cr under MGNREGS. It will help generate nearly 300 crore person days in total addressing need for more work incl returning migrant workers in Monsoon as well. Assam stands to immensely benefit. @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/43o7DxU3im
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
6/10 Innumerable street vendors in Assam would benefit from the Rs 5000 crore Special Credit Facility for Street Vendors. The initial working capital of up to Rs 10,000 shall help them to stabilise and scale up their businesses. #AtmaNirbharAssam @PMOIndia #AtmaNirbharBharat
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
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↗️Rs 1500 each to Assam’s 1 cr women beneficiaries = Rs 1500 cr
↗️ Rs 700 × 3 for cylinders under #Ujjwala for 35 lakh beneficiaries = Rs 735 cr
↗️85 lakh old age, widow & divyang Rs 1000 each = Rs 85 cr
↗️COVID management = Rs 153 cr #AtmaNirbharAssam @narendramodi— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
8/10 Under One Nation One Ration Card, migrants & their family members can avail PDS system from any fair price shop in India by March 2021. This technology driven reform will be beneficial especially during transit. #AtmaNirbharAssam @PMOIndia @narendramodi @FinMinIndia
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
9/10 GoI has enhanced resources position of Assam govt by enhancing borrowing limit from 3 to 5% of GSDP. This will enable us to mobilize an additional Rs 6-8k cr. This shall go a long way in providing necessary resources to needy sectors & help in containing #COVID. @PMOIndia
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
10/10 Following PM Sri @narendramodi‘s vision of #AtmaNirbharBharat we would like to embark on the policy of #AtmaNirbharAssam. For this, we have formed a committee under Pr Secy Fin Sri @samirsinha69 with senior most secretaries of depts to draw a roadmap. @nsitharaman
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 18, 2020
