Interventions of States in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
Interventions of States in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak
March 25, 2020
Below we have put together a list of interventions that state governments have announced in response to COVID-19 outbreak. If you would like to add to the below list, please send a mail to SPI [at] dvara.com
Centre
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Students of colleges coming under AICTE | Suspended payment | Students need not pay college fee until lockdown is lifted |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Double of their current entitlement to be provided over the next three months (additionality is free of cost)+ 1 kg of pulses per family, according to regional preferences to be provided for the next three months free of cost |
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| BPL family | Additional cash transfer | Gas cylinders, free of cost, would be provided for the next three months |
Women
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Jan Dhan account holders | Additional cash transfer | Rs 500 per month for the next three months |
| Self-help groups | Credit | Limit of collateral-free lending would be increased from Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakhs |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Jan Dhan account holders | Additional cash transfer | Rs 500 per month for the next three months |
| Self-help groups | Credit | Limit of collateral-free lending would be increased from Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakhs |
Farmer
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Enrolled under PM-KISAN Yojana | Cash transfer | First instalment of Rs 2,000 due in 2020-21 will be front-loaded and paid in April 2020 itself |
| Farmers with crop loan up to Rs.3 lakh given by banks due between 1st March and 31st May | Incentive | Government extends the benefit of 2% Interest Subvention to banks and 3% prompt repayment incentive to all farmers up to 31st May 2020 |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MGNREGA workers | Additional cash transfer | MNREGA wages would be increased by Rs 20 with effect from 1 April 2020 |
| Registered to BoCW | Direction to states | State Governments will be given directions to utilise this fund to provide assistance and support to these workers |
| All | Payment | Employers to pay wages of their workers on the due date without any deduction for the period their establishments are under closure due to the lockdown |
| Living in rented accommodation | Suspended payment | Landlords to not demand payment of rent for a period of one month |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Stranded in destination states/regions | Direction to states | State/UT governments to ensure adequate arrangements of temporary shelters and provision of food |
| Suspended payment | Landlords to not demand payment of rent for a period of one month | |
| Moved out to return to home state | Direction to states | To be moved to the nearest shelter by respective states/UTs- quarantine (min. 14 days) and screening facilities to be provided |
| All | Direction to states | States can utilise SDRF to provide temporary accommodation, food, etc. |
| Ration disbursement | Migrants who are neither NFSA or State Card beneficiaries in the state they are stationed will be provided 5 kg of grains per person and 1 kg Chana per family per month for two months | |
| Shelter | Government to launch a scheme under PMAY for migrant labour/urban poor to provide ease of living at affordable rent |
Tribals
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Collecting Minor Forest Produce | Direction to states | 15 states have been advised to undertake procurement of MFP at MSP |
Organised sector workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Wage-earners below Rs 15,000 per month in businesses having less than 100 workers | Norm relaxation | Government to pay 24 percent of their monthly wages into their PF accounts for the next three months |
| Registered under EPF | Norm relaxation | Non-refundable advance allowed-of 75 percent of the amount or three months of the wages, whichever is lower, from their accounts |
| All | Extension of EPF | Extending the Employees Provident Fund Support for business and organised workers for another 3 months for salary months of June, July and August 2020 |
| Reduction in EPF contribution | EPF Contribution to be reduced for Employers and Employees for 3 months to 10% from 12% for all establishments covered by EPFO for the next 3 months |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Taxpayers | Deferred payment | The last date for filing returns under eight labour laws and 10 central rules for 2019 has been extended till April 30 |
Borrowers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Depending on the bank mandate | Moratorium | Moratorium on EMI payments on all loans for the next three months (terms depending on bank mandate) |
Health workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Safai karamcharis, ward-boys, nurses, ASHA workers, paramedics, technicians, doctors and specialists and other health workers | Incentive | Accident insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh per health worker |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Postal employees | Compensation | Compensation of Rs.10 lakhs to all Postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks |
Andhra Pradesh
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Service | ‘YSR Telemedicine’ rolled out to make doctors available online for out-patient services for Covid-19 |
| Deferred payment | Collection of power bills deferred till June 30 |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1000 per family |
| In-kind transfer | April ration of rice and 1 kg of red gram dal will be given free of cost | |
| Service | Home delivery of the mentioned benefits |
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| BPL families | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Service | Home delivery of pensions |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | The state government has devised an action plan to purchase paddy through the civil supplies corporation during the Rabi season. Arrangements have been made to purchase paddy at the agricultural fields itself and transport to godowns. |
| 700 procurement centres set up for farmers where jowar, red gram, Bengal gram, maize and turmeric are procured |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Permanent employees with government and private sector establishments | Payment | Full salaries for the period of lockdown to be provided |
| Contractual employees with government and private sector establishments | Payment | Full salaries for the period of lockdown to be provided |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Arrangements for food and shelter to be made |
| Food | Mid-day meal programme extended to stranded migrants | |
| Migrants returning from other states | Administration | Government is providing logistical support to the local administration in Kolar with respect to facilities and medical personnel for returning migrants stopped and quarantined in Kolar |
| Transport | Once they reach the relief centres, people belonging to AP are to be sent to their native districts by APSRTC buses free of cost | |
| Migrants enroute to other states | Food | 79 food counters set up along the national highways near check-posts to provide food and water |
MSME
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Incentive | The government decided to clear all due incentives pending from 2014 |
| Waiver | Power demand charges of MSME sector to be waived | |
| Credit | A loan of Rs.2.00 Lakhs to Rs.10.00 Lakhs will be provided to MSMEs @ 6% – 8% interest rate plus a processing fee of 0.25 %. The loan shall be repayable in 3 years including moratorium period of 6 months. | |
| Sales | All Government entities shall procure at least 25% of their annual requirements of goods and services from the eligible Micro and Small Enterprises. |
Arunachal Pradesh
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Stranded outside state | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 3500 |
| – | Nutrition | 2000 kitchen gardens per assembly constituency to be developed for self-sufficiency in basic nutritional needs |
| – | Agriculture | 2To develop agriculture farm clusters per assembly constituency with min of 5 Ha land parcel upto 25 Ha or more |
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Informal workers
Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
Registered with BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2,000 per month in April and May |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered under PM-KISAN | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Arrangements for food and shelter to be made |
Assam
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| In tribal-dominated areas | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Students
Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
MDM scheme beneficiaries | Service | Food provided directly to beneficiaries at home |
NFSA beneficiaries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Ration cardholders | In-kind transfer | Rice free of cost |
| Non-ration cardholders | In-kind transfer | Provides 5 kg rice per month per member per family |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered with BoCW and engaged in embankment construction | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Migrants stranded in other states | Shelter | Assistance like food, accommodation, medical support, transportation in coordination with Assam Bhawans and Assam Houses and concerned district administrations |
| Returning from other states | Work | Job cards and work under MGNREGA to be given to returning migrants |
| Service | Skill Development Department to take steps for imparting training to returning workers for upgrading their skills – Sudakhya digital portal set up for the same |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered farming families | Additional cash transfer | Rs.2500 (financial assistance) |
Destitute and homeless
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Not covered by NFSA | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Emigrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Residents of the state stranded abroad | Cash transfer | $1000 each to 230 Assamese stranded abroad |
Front-line workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Police personnel and all other frontline officials of departments directly engaged in the fight against Coronavirus | Incentive | Insurance cover of Rs 50 lakhs |
Health
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| people undergoing treatment in other states for cancer, kidney and heart ailments during the lockdown | Cash transfer | Rs.25000 each for 610 people of Assam |
Bihar
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | 90 kitchens are being opened in different parts of the state for free food |
| Eligible for Ration card | Service | People who do not have ration cards and is entitled to ration cards should definitely be given ration cards at the earliest |
COVID Patients
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Tested positive for CoViD | Medical expenses | State government to bear expenses of the treatment of any patient who tests positive for coronavirus in the state |
| Death due to Corona | Compensation | Rs. 4 lakh to next of kin |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1,000 per family |
| In-kind transfer | One month’s ration free of cost |
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional cash transfer | 3 LPG cylinders free under Ujjwala scheme |
Marginal households
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Without ration card | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| Urban poor | Essential | Free distribution of mask among urban poor |
Student
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Students receiving scholarship | Cash transfer | Due scholarship amount of all students (classes 1-12) would be sent to their accounts by March 31 |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Pension amount of the next three months to be paid in advance through bank transfers |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | State government to buy agricultural produce from farmers from 30th April |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Daily wage earners | Shelter | Food and shelter to be provided |
| MGNREGA workers (with card) | Work | Water conservation work, tree plantation work and other rural development work initiated |
| MGNREGA workers (without job card) | Service | Job cards to be made for these workers (including migrant workers who have returned) |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Migrants stranded in other states | Reimbursement | Bihar Resident Commissioner in Delhi to coordinate with various state governments and reimburse the cost of their food and stay |
| Government to reimburse travel fare and provide additional Rs 500 to incoming migrants, such persons to get at least Rs 1,000 | ||
| Service | Mobile application developed to identify genuine migrants in other states | |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 | |
| Migrants returning from other states | Shelter | State-run camps set up for 14-day quarantine |
| Basic kit | Residents are being provided with a basic kit — a set of 21 items including clothes, utensils, combs, etc. (~Rs.1000) | |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs. 500 (as ticket fare + cash) | |
| Job | 5000 migrants identified to be engaged in different road and bridge projects across the state | |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Food and shelter to be provided |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Need for clarity | Shelter | Schools to be converted to temporary shelter homes for the needy, where food will also be provided |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Health workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Government doctors and health employees | Incentive | To be paid an incentive equivalent to their one month’s basic pay |
Vehicle owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Deferred payment | Grace period for paying taxes on vehicles extended until June 30, 2020 |
Chhattisgarh
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Suspended payment | Electricity meter reading / Billing to be stopped till March 31st |
| Concession | Half Rate On Electricity Rates for two months under the “Half Rate Scheme” | |
| Information | ‘Kawach’ mobile app which provides real-time information on suspected and confirmed cases in the state, information about the nodal officers and the nearest corona hospitals, details regarding a donation to CM relief funds, feature for ordering home delivery for essential goods. |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Rice for two months to be provided in April + Rice for June also to be provided free of charge |
Already sanctioned grains in PDS are given free and additional quantity if required at Rs 1/kg. Additionally, 1 kg gram/dal free of cost, additional quantity if required at Rs 5/kg
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| Antyodaya, Annapoorna ration card holders | In-kind transfer | Sugar and salt for two months (in addition to rice) |
| APL ration card holders | In-kind transfer | Refined iodized salt to be distributed under PDS to APL families at the rate of Rs 10/kg |
| PDS beneficiaries who couldn’t avail services in March/ April | Service | Can receive pending benefits in June |
Non-ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those without a ration card for whatever reason | In-kind transfer | Ration for a month free of cost |
Student
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Middle school students | In-kind transfer | 4kg rice and 0.8 kg pulses |
| Primary school students | In-kind transfer | 6kg rice and 1.2kg pulses |
| School and college students | Service | Online education portal launched for the education of school children and college students (cgschool.in). |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MGNREGA workers | Preparation | Keep adequate shelf of works ready to provide employment immediately on demand |
Destitute
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Destitute families identified by the district administration | Food | Food packets to be distributed |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
Unorganized workers from other states/regions staying back | Shelter | 355 relief camps have been set up |
Vehicle owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
Trucks and buses | Tax waiver | One-month tax of trucks and two-month tax of buses waived off |
Delhi
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | Lunch and dinner to be served free to every person at all Delhi government shelters (224-night shelters, 325 schools, etc.) |
| Service | The government has issued 11 Hunger Helpline numbers that will guide and assist people to the nearest night shelter for availing cooked meal | |
| Suspended payment | The landlords should not demand rent for one month from students and labourers or evict them. |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Free ration with 50% more quantity than normal entitlements |
Children
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| ICDS beneficiaries | Service | Anganwadi workers delivering food directly to beneficiaries |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes (Widows, differently-abled and elderly) | Cash transfer | The pension doubled for March |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.5000 |
| Transport service providers (Auto, E-Rickshaw, RTV and Gramin Seva) | Additional cash transfer | Rs.5000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/regions staying back | Shelter | Converting schools in the Ghazipur area into night shelters to accommodate migrant workers |
Quarantined
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| For those who need to be quarantined and are opting for the paid hotel facility | Tax cut | GST will be waived |
Health workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| In the event of the death of health care personnel (incl. govt or of Pvt doctor, nurse, sanitation workers) while dealing with COVID cases | Compensation | Rs. 1cr for families of health workers |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those without a ration card | In-kind transfer | Can register to get 5kg ration |
Goa
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | Food buses/ vehicles with cooked food run by the government |
| Students & staffs | Shut down until May 31st | All Technical Educational Institutions under the purview of Directorate of Technical Education |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Food grains for the next three months to be distributed at one time |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Migrant shelter homes in each taluk |
| Work | Migrant workers to be engaged in pre-monsoon work and paid daily wages |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.4000 |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Contract workers in PWD | employment | The contract workers who were working under contractor or contract agency are now been enrolled under PWDLSS. |
Gujarat
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | Extended the electricity bill payment deadline to May 15 |
| Extended the electricity bill payment deadline to May 30 for the month of March-April | ||
| High Transmission consumers can now pay their fix charge for the month of May from September 2020 to December 2020 | ||
| Concession | 10% relief for Annual property tax for 2020-21 id paid by 31st July, 2020 | |
| Domestic consumers with less than 200 units of consumption per month will get a relaxation of 100 units in their monthly bill | ||
| Contract carriage buses and Maxi cab buses | Reduced payment | Relieved from taxes from April, 2020 to September 2020 |
Low-income Household
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of MA Amrutam and MAA Vatsalya Yojana | Health | Will undergo free COVID-19 tests during surgery or delivery of a child. The cost for the same will be borne by the state government. |
Ration card holder
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Antyoda and PHH ration cardholders | In-kind transfer | 3.5 kg wheat, 1.5 kg rice, 1 kg sugar, 1 kg pulses and 1 kg salt for a month free of charge |
| NFSA and BPL cardholders | In-kind transfer | 5 kg food grains per person and 1 kg pulses, 1 kg sugar and 1 kg salt per card for April free of cost |
| Cash transfer | NFSA cardholders will get a sum of Rs.1000 as financial aid for the month of April. | |
| Non-NFSA APL cardholders | In-kind transfer | 10 kg wheat, 3 kg rice, 1 kg sugar and 1 kg pulse-free of cost for April and May. |
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Concession | Concessional tariff provided that will reduce their electricity bills by 30 percent |
Students/Children
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MDM beneficiaries | Cash transfer | Cash benefits provided in lieu |
| 3-6 years of age | Service | Take home ration provided at home |
| Beneficiaries of Adarsh Nivasi Shalas, Ashram Shalas and Child Protection homes | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1500 |
| Beneficiaries of Nivasi Girls Schools | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1500 |
Women
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Non-BPL women and girls | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Women Utkarsh Group | Credit | Interest Assistance for Women Utkarsh Group to get loan at zero percent rate to encourage women for self-employment |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | For the month of April to be paid in advance |
| Aged, helpless and divyang beneficiaries | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 in two instalments |
Elderly
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Living alone in the metropolis | Food | Provision of free of cost meals at the doorstep under ‘Vadil Vandana’ |
| Essential commodities | Provision of necessary items |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Agriculture | Concession | The tariff for irrigation purposes has been lowered to 80 paise from Rs 1.50 per unit |
| Dairy | Sales | Small milk producers, who are not members, can also deposit their milk and milk produces with primary milk cooperative societies |
| With loans | Interest | Interest for the period of the moratorium to be borne by the government |
| Farmers who switch to cow-based farming | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 900 p.m. and annually Rs. 10,800 will be provided as financial assistance |
| Beneficiaries of Subhash Palekar Natural Farming method | Financial assistance | 75% assistance |
| – | Credit | Farmers will get loan at ‘zero’ percent interest rate. 3% interest on crop loan will be paid by Government of India and 4% interest will be paid by Government of Gujarat. |
| – | Financial assistance | To strengthen the agricultural economy by preventing post-crop losses due to various natural factors under Mukhya Mantri Pak Sangraha Yojana, farmers will be given assistance of Rs. 30,000 per unit for setting up of small godowns in the fields |
| – | Financial assistance | Assistance of Rs.50 thousand to 75 thousand will be provided to farmers to purchase light freight vehicles |
| Market committees | Financial assistance | Assistance to market committees to build godowns with a capacity of up to 5000 metric tons for protection of agricultural products during natural calamities |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Workers from other states/ regions staying back | In-kind transfer | To get food grains under Annabrahma Yojna from April 4, even if they don’t possess ration cards |
| Shelter | Relief Camps Sheds to be built in rural areas across Gujarat for stay and food of migrant workers |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Employees/ daily wage earners | Security | Owners, management, registered labour contractors of private industrial units, factories, and shop owners to neither terminate the jobs of labourers nor deduct wages |
| Labourers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Construction workers | Travel assistance | Assistance in travel expenses to construction workers in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Vadodra |
| Wives of construction workers and female construction workers | Pregnancy assistance | Rs. 27,500 up to two children |
| Adivasi labourers without a house | Subsidy | ₹ 35,000 per beneficiary for building houses in the native places |
| Small traders, middle class individuals, labours and workers | Credit | Loans through cooperative banks and credit cooperative societies from Rs 1 lakh to a maximum of Rs 2.50 lakh. |
| Self employed | Service | Kits of Manav Garima Scheme will be distributed for the purpose of self-employment |
| Vegetable vendors operating lorries and the like | Essential | Will be provided with large sized umbrellas in order to prevent their vegetables, fruits and other produce from getting affected from heat, cold and rains |
Front-line workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Police personnel, sanitation and health workers of the municipalities, revenue and food supplies staff, fair price shop owners approved by Government as well as the Department of Food Civil Supplies | Compensation | If they die in the line of duty due to coronavirus, their kin will get Rs. 25 lakh |
Industries and trading units
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Concession | Will not bill the fixed charge for April & May |
| MSME | Credit | Loan up to Rs. one lakh at 2% (two percent per year) interest will be given for three years period without any security from the nearby banks, with no EMI for first six months, while the State Government will par 6% (six per cent) interest |
| Small shop owners like grocery shops, readymade garment stores, medical stores, etc. | Reduced payment | Electricity tax has been reduced from 20% to 15% for three months i.e June, July and August, 2020 |
| Industries in Gujarat Industrial Estates | Incentive | The period of payment of instalments dated 31-03-2020 and 30-06-2020 due to GIDC by the allottees will be extended for six months. No penalty interest or interest on late payment will be charged. Interest on late payment for the remaining period will be charged at a concessional rate of 7%. |
| Reduced payment | New industries are facilitated to pay the cost of land in quarterly instalments. Also, their current interest rate will be reduced from 12% to 10% | |
| Waiver | GIDC has decided to waive off interest on Water bills as well as penalty interest for March and April-2020 | |
| One time settlement scheme will be implemented for outstanding debts of GIDC industrialists. 50% waiver on interest on late payment and penalty interest will be 100% waived off. | ||
| 50% amount of interest will be waived off on all the late payments by industrialists of notified area of GIDC. | ||
| Plot allotment | In the unsaturated estates of GIDC, without charging extra premium for plot allotment, the existing industrialists are allotted more plots for expansion of their industries. Currently 20 percent premium is charged at once. | |
| Reduced payment | If the plot has remained closed for more than 2 years, the penalty for non-use of plot will be levied at only 5 per cent per annum instead of 20 per cent. | |
| Administrative ease | In order to encourage micro, small and medium industries, online application for allotment of plots up to 3000 square meters by GIDC will not be required to submit to the committee. Evidence-based allotment is now permitted. | |
| Moratorium | GIDC will extend the moratorium period for one year for starting use of all such assets in the current financial year | |
| Exemption in penalty | Industrialists whose industrial plots’ moratorium period is completed or the plots are open or the production is yet to start can avail exemption in penalty for non-use of plot if they start production by 31-03-2022. | |
| Traders | Administrative ease under VAT-GST Act | Those who have paid first instalment up to 15th March, 2020 will be given an extension of 3 months under Tax Reconciliation Scheme-2019 |
| Businessmen having annual turnover less than Rs.10 Crore | Administrative ease under VAT-GST Act | Notice given for the assessment will be withdrawn in case of businessmen having annual turnover less than Rs.10 Crore |
| – | Administrative ease under VAT-GST Act | Deadlines and time limit of prohibition orders under VAT and central legal provisions which are ending during the lockdown period will be extended. |
Homeless
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Without shelter and ration card | In-kind transfer | 5 kg food grains per person and 1 kg pulses,1 kg salt and 1 kg sugar per card under Anna Bhrama Yojana |
Livestock owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Livestock in Gaushalas and Panjrapols | Additional cash transfer | Rs.25 per day per livestock |
Doctors-paramedics
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Life Protection | Providing complete health protection shield to the real Corona Warriors like doctors-paramedics involved in the treatment of people infected with Coronavirus. |
Teachers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Medical / Dental teachers under Health department | pay scale | Increment in the pay scale. |
Haryana
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | In case of delay in payment of water or sewerage bills by the due date, no surcharge or interest would be charged till April 15 |
COVID Patients
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All tested positive for CoViD and requiring hospitalization | Medical expenses | Will be admitted free of cost |
Poor
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| BPL families not registered under MMPSY | Additional cash transfer | Rs 4,000 per month on a weekly basis starting March 30 |
| Families who have landholding of less than 5 acres and annual income of less than Rs 1.80 lakh and are not getting any financial assistance under any other category (to be verified through SMS based system) | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 per week |
| Those without ration cards | Food | Packed ration distributed |
| Service | ‘Distress Ration Tokens’ are being issued so that after receiving the tokens such families can collect free rations from the designated fair price (ration) shop |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All government school children and those enrolled with anganwadis | In-kind transfer | Dry rations for the period the schools and anganwadis stay closed |
| Private school students | Suspended payment | All types of fee collection have been banned during the lockdown |
| Government school students (class 1-12) | e-learning | Students to be taught through e-learning platforms |
| Primary school students (Esp. Hindi medium schools) | e-learning | ‘Sampark Baithak’ mobile application launched |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | 467 camps set up also providing food and other essential commodities (medicines, etc.) |
| Food | Packed ration distributed | |
| Travel | Entire cost of trains and buses incurred to send migrant workers home is being borne by the government. Free arrangements are being made by the government to bring them to the railway stations and bus stations. |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those registered with Haryana BoCW but not registered under MMPSY | Additional cash transfer | Rs 4,500 per month on weekly basis starting March 30 (bank transfer) |
| Daily wagers, including labourers and street vendors with a bank account (register with the deputy commissioner of the district on the portal established on March 27) | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1,000 per week (bank transfer) |
| MGNREGA workers | Work | 40,000 cattle sheds under the individual category in the MGNREGA scheme for rural poor families has been started |
Vehicle owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | Due date of all taxes under the Haryana Motor Vehicle Taxation Act would be extended by one month to April 30, 2020 |
| Stage and contract carriage vehicles | Exemption | 100 per cent exemption from the Motor Vehicle Taxation for the period they are not allowed to ply in view of the lockdown |
| Vehicles which become due for renewal/passing from March 15, 2020, to April 30 | Suspension of penalty | No penalty would be charged for any delay |
| Commercial vehicles (auto, motor cab, maxi cab, bus, and truck) | Waiver | Proportionate waiver of Motor vehicle tax for the period from March 15 to May 15, 2020 |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| With crop loan | Tenure extension | Crop loans can be repaid by June 30, 2020, instead of April 15, 2020- also with the benefit of interest subvention for this period |
| Sugarcane farmers | Repayment | Dues of the farmers of the sugarcane crop to sugar mills to be paid off |
| All | Sales | Produce to be purchased by state government-increase in the number of mandis and purchase centres for the procurement of mustard and wheat |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All health and frontline workers, engaged in curbing the coronavirus spread (from both govt and Pvt hospitals) | Incentive | Accident insurance of Rs.50 lakh (doctors), Rs.30 lakh (nurses), Rs.20 lakh (paramedics), Rs.10 lakh (others) to be provided |
| Doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, testing staff, class IV employees, and all those who come in direct contact with COVID-19 patients | Incentive | Double salary |
| Media persons accredited/recognized) Registered farmers, arhtiyas, labourers and employees (incl. part-time or contractual) of all procurement agencies engaged in the procurement process in Mandis | Incentive | Insurance cover of Rs. 10lakh till June 30, 2020 |
| Private health clinics, nursing homes, and dental clinics | Incentive | To be included under the central government’s special economic package for MSME |
| Private doctors | Treatment costs | If found to be Covid positive treatment would be carried out at government expense |
| Doctors and Paramedical staff treating COVID patients | Accommodation | Haryana Tourism Corporation is providing free of cost boarding and lodging facilities in their tourist complexes |
Industrialists
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Industrialist, Businessmen, and others using big power connections | Concession | If the consumption of 50 kW unit is 50 percent or less, then the fixed charges of last and the present month will be waived off. Apart from this, High Tension connections larger than 50 kW, the fixed charges up to a maximum limit of Rs 10 thousand will be waived off in these bills. 25% discount will be given to those consumers whose monthly fixed charge is more than Rs 40,000. The remaining 75% amount of fixed charge will be taken in six equal instalments from July to December 2020. This benefit will be given only to those whose consumption is less than 50 percent of the average of January and February month. |
| Work hour Extension | Rules issued under the Factories Act, 1948 increasing the work hours of the labourers to twelve hours until June 30, 2020 | |
| Startups working in the Startup Incubator Centre | Waiver | Would not be charged rent from March 15 to May 15, 2020 |
| MSME benefitting from Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan | Service | Government has launched a dedicated portal, ‘Haryana Udhyam Sahyog’, to capture the MSME grievances in obtaining loans |
Himachal Pradesh
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Service | Essential commodities to be home delivered |
| Fresh vegetables to reach farmer’s farm directly from consumer’s door-to-door, “Sabziwale” on snow e-cart app | ||
| People residing in Hamirpur Nagar Parishad area and Baguri | Service | Milk, curd, cheese to be door delivered door-to-door from 7.00 am to 11.00 pm every day. |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfers | Ration including flour and rice for two months will be given |
| Children in the age group of six months to six-year, pregnant and lactating mothers and 11-14 years out of school adolescent girls enrolled in the Anganwadi Centres | In-kind transfers | Take home ration should be distributed to all enrolled beneficiaries in the AWCs especially migrant labour |
| NFSA beneficiaries | Identifications | Upper income limit for identifying BPL households to be raised to ~Rs. 45000 |
| APL cardholders | Reduced subsidy | Subsidy on pulses, edible oil and sugar to APL families reduced |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes – non remote areas | Cash transfers | Advance payment of three months’ pension- Rs.3000 |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes – remote areas | Cash transfers | Advance payment of six months’ pension |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Service | Door to door delivery of pensions by the postal department |
| Beneficiaries of widow or disability pension | Additional cash transfer | Monthly pension amount raised from Rs.850 to Rs.1000 |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Horticulturalists | Service | Door to door or at least village wise supply of fertilizers, pesticides and other plant protection material |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered with the BoCW board | Additional cash transfers | Rs. 2000 each for March and April |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Food | Panchayats to identify migrant labourers without food and buy rations for them |
| Stranded in Delhi | Shelter | Shelter home provided |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Grade X & XII | Service | Telecasting the Himachal Door darshan Gyan Shala at DD Shimla from 17th April for class X and XII students so that students can study while staying in their homes. |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| ASHA workers | Incentive | An additional incentive of Rs 1000 per month from March to June 2020 |
Jammu and Kashmir
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | The date for renewal or extension of registration certificates for licenses, permits and other statutory clearances extended from March 31 to June 30. |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfers | Advance ration for the months of April and May to be issued |
| BPL and AAY Beneficiaries | In-kind transfers | Distribution of free ration of 5 kg rice per soul |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Immediate release of 2 instalments of pensions |
| Pending applicants | – | To be covered by social welfare department |
Student
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MDM beneficiaries | In-kind transfer | One month’s ration for mid-day meals to be issued in advance to all parents of eligible children |
Jan Dhan account holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Credit | Banks requested to honour requests for overdraft |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Daily wage earners | Payment | Immediate release of one month’s wages |
| Registered with BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 per month for three months. |
| Registered under ESIC scheme | Compensation | To be extended with relief/compensation including wages through ESIC hospitals/employers |
| Houseboat workers, shikarawalas registered with tourism department | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Tourist guides, palkiwalas, poniwalas, pithuwalas working at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board and different tourism development authorities | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Street vendors registered with Jammu and Srinagar municipal corporations | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Registered active flower growers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
Women
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Daily wage earners | Payment | Immediate release of one month’s wages |
| Registered with BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 per month for three months. |
| Registered under ESIC scheme | Compensation | To be extended with relief/compensation including wages through ESIC hospitals/employers |
| Houseboat workers, shikarawalas registered with tourism department | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Tourist guides, palkiwalas, poniwalas, pithuwalas working at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board and different tourism development authorities | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Street vendors registered with Jammu and Srinagar municipal corporations | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
| Registered active flower growers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 per month for 3 months |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Slum-dwellers and destitute | Food | Ration packets to be distributed |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Lawyers | Benefits | Financial relief of Rs One crore to lawyers whose livelihoods have been severely hit due to imposed restrictions |
Commercial establishments
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered | Deferred payment | Levy of fixed component of power charges has been deferred across all the sectors till June 30 |
Jharkhand
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | 356 ‘khichidi’ centres across the state providing food at Rs.5 per plate |
| CM Kitchen and Community kitchens to be set up across the state | ||
| Poor in remote areas (not defined) | Food | Relief packets of two kg Chuda, half a kg of gram and half a kg of jaggery to be distributed |
Ration card holders (+pending application)
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Advance distribution of ration for April and May |
| Families with a pending application for ration cards (identification by district and block officials) | In-kind transfer | 10 kilos of rice at Re1/kilo of rice procured from local market |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Pensions or March and April to be provided simultaneously |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered daily workers | Payment | Full wage payment for the lockdown period |
|
Registered to BoCW |
Additional cash transfer |
Rs. 1500 (Rs.500 per month for 3 months) |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | 624 camps set up; food and other facilities provided |
| Stranded in other states | Service | Helpline numbers have been set up |
| Service | Mobile app launched to identify and create a database of migrant labourers to transfer financial assistance | |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 through DBT (through Chief Minister’s Special Assistance Scheme mobile app) | |
| Migrants en route | Service | Community kitchen will open on the highway for migrant passers every 20km |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Food | Emergency relief packets are being distributed |
Karnataka
General
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| COVID-19 patients | Service – Free treatment | For COVID 19 patients referred by the PHIs to private healthcare providers, the cost of the treatment is completely free for the patient and Government will pick up the cost. |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Free ration for the next two months will be given in one go |
Students/Children
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| ICDS beneficiaries | Service | Anganwadi workers delivering food directly to beneficiaries |
| Students of private schools | Suspended payment | Schools do not take fees for online classes |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfers | Two months social security pension to be released in advance |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Workers registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| MGNREGA workers | Payment | Two months payment to be released in advance |
| Streetside vendors, labourers | Food | Food packets to be provided free of cost |
| Roadside vendors with loans under Badavara Bandhu | Loan waiver | 13.20 crore loans under Badavara Bandhu scheme to be waived |
| Artists and writers working in the field for 10 years | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2000 |
| Washermen, barbers, autorickshaw drivers and taxi drivers affected by the lockdown | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 5000 |
| Handloom weavers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2000 |
| Building workers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 3000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Migrants stranded in other states | Reimbursement | Bihar Resident Commissioner in Delhi to coordinate with various state governments and reimburse the cost of their food and stay |
| Migrants returning from other states | Shelter | State-run camps set up for 14-day quarantine |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Food and shelter to be provided |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Urban slum dwellers | Food | Excess milk from KMF to be distributed in slum areas |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | Govt. to purchase tur dal (7 quintals per acre up to 20 quintals per farmer) and bengal gram (5 quintals per acre up to 15 quintals per farmer) from farmers under the minimum support price scheme. |
| Maize farmers | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 5000 |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Anganwadi workers, helpers, pourakarmikas and police personnel | Compensation | Ex-gratia of Rs 30 lakh in case of death due to Covid |
| KSRTC drivers and conductors | Incentive | Insurance coverage for families of KSRTC drivers and conductors if they fall prey to Covid-19 while on duty |
| ASHA workers | Incentive | Rs 3,000 to be provided through cooperative institutions |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MSME industries | Deferred payment | Relief / Incentives given to various categories of consumers for the month of April, May and June.
Fixed / Demand charged payable shall be deferred until 30th June |
Factories
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered under Factories act 1948 | Extension | Max worker daily hours raised to 10 hours and weekly hours to 60 hours from 22-05-2020 to 21-08-2020 |
| Withdrawal | Withdrawal of extension of working hours |
Kerala
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | One month relaxation in bill payment deadline for electricity-water utilities |
| Food | The state government’s plans to launch restaurants will be fast-tracked and meals will be offered at Rs 20 instead of Rs 25 | |
| 1213 community kitchens set up by local governments to provide food to those unable to cook | ||
| Service | Doorstep delivery of essential commodities | |
| Doorstep cash delivery through postmen | ||
| Non-ration cardholders | Service | Ration cards to be provided on an urgent basis |
COVID Patients/Quarantined
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Patients | Service | Decentralized group of volunteers to be set up to provide food and medical support for COVID-19 patients |
| Quarantined | Essential commodities | Home delivered essential commodity kit worth Rs. 1000 |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Ration card holders-AAY | In-kind transfer | Continue to receive 30kg rice and 5kg wheat |
| Essential items kit (sugar, salt, oil, tea leaves, soochi, etc.) distributed free of cost | ||
| Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 | |
| Ration card holders-Pink | In-kind transfer | 5kg (per person) of Rs2 cereal for free |
| Essential items kit (sugar, salt, oil, tea leaves, soochi, etc.) distributed free of cost | ||
| Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 | |
| Ration card holders-Blue and white | In-kind transfer | Minimum of 15kg of Rs2 cereal per card |
| Essential items kit (sugar, salt, oil, tea leaves, soochi, etc.) distributed free of cost | ||
| AAY & Priority cardholders | In-kind transfer | Free rice distribution under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) will begin on April 20 |
Borrowers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Deferred repayment | The state has also suspended debt collection by chit funds and other non-banking institutions, as well as punitive actions by the banks, all auctions including that of gold pledged in financial establishments |
Students/Children
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Suspended payment | Fee payment in educational institutions has been suspended |
| ICDS beneficiaries | Service | Anganwadi workers delivering food directly to beneficiaries |
| Beneficiaries of ‘Mittayi’ scheme | Service | Direct delivery of insulin |
| Students without a TV in the house | Service | Regional cooperative societies to provide TVs |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes (agriculture labour pension, IGNOAPS, IGNDPS, IGNWPS, pension to unmarried women above 50 years) | Cash transfer | Social welfare pension due in April, will be distributed in March |
| Those who do not receive social pensions | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1000 |
| Registered to Pravasi welfare fund | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Registered to Pravasi welfare fund and found to be Covid positive | Additional cash transfer | Rs.10000 |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Autorickshaw drivers | Tax cuts | Fitness charge relaxation for autos |
| Taxi drivers | Tax cuts | Fitness charge relaxation for taxis |
| Working under MGNREGA | Payment | MGNREGA payments for April and May to be distributed |
| Lottery sellers | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1000 |
| Essential | Sanitizer, mask to be distributed | |
| Daily wage workers in government offices | Payment | Full salary to be paid |
| Contract workers in government offices | Payment | Full salary to be paid |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 (if completed 2 years of registration) |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs.2000 (if dependents of workers are affected by chronic illness) | |
| Registered to shops and commercial establishments welfare board | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 (for self-employed in Thiruvananthapuram and members providing essential services during lockdown) |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs.10000 (for members if found COVID-19 positive) Rs. 5000 (members in isolation at home or hospitals) | |
| Registered to khadi welfare board | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| Registered to weaver welfare board | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 + Rs. 1000 |
| Registered to headload worker welfare board | Additional cash transfers | Rs. 5000 |
| Credit | An interest-free loan of Rs. 5000 | |
| Registered to tailoring worker welfare board | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Registered to cooperative workers welfare board | Credit | 90% of the amount paid or Rs.7500 (whichever is lower) |
| Fishermen | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2000 per family (post-registration in FIMS) |
| Registered to labour welfare board (and not in sectors providing complete payments and those who haven’t received benefits under other schemes) | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | 4,603 relief camps set up (food, masks, soaps, sanitisers to be made available) |
| Service | Information about workers will be collected and ID cards will be provided | |
| Insurance | Based on ID cards insurance cover of 2 lakhs to be provided |
Emigrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Expatriates in countries with a substantial number of Keralites | Service | 5 COVID helpline desks for expatriates- online medical services also made available |
| Can now register on the NORKA platform to return home | ||
| NRIs stranded in Kerala due to COVID-19 | Additional cash transfer (conditional) | Rs. 5000 |
| Expatriates who returned | Service | Portal launched to collect info of returnees to find jobs/ start enterprises |
Homeless and destitute
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Shelter | 35 relief camps set up (food, masks, soaps, sanitisers to be made available) |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those in orphanages, old age homes, monasteries | In-kind transfer | Those that earlier had a quota for 15kg per person, will be given the ration for free.
Those that did not receive such rations earlier will get 5kg ration free of cost- a kit for 4 inhabitants. |
Vehicle owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those with outstanding taxes for four years or more | Incentive | Provisions for one-time settlement |
| Contract carriage vehicles | Tax cut | 20% tax cut for the quarter beginning from April |
| Stage carriage vehicles | Tax cut | 30% tax cut for the quarter beginning from April |
| Those with temporary registration or those who applied for registration | Exemption | Exemption from tax rise due from April |
Entrepreneurs
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Cinema hall owners | Tax cuts | Entertainment taxes reduced for cinema halls |
Self-help groups
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Kudumbashree units | Credit | Facilitate loans through Kudumbashree in the nature of a consumer loan to those impacted by COVID-19 |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| ASHA workers | Incentive | Extra incentive of Rs. 1000 per month |
Madhya Pradesh
BPL
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | In-kind transfer | A month’s ration to be provided free of cost |
Scheduled tribes
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Baiga, Sahariya and Bhariya families | Additional cash transfer | Rs.2000 |
Children/Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Between 3-6 years of age | Food | SHGs to provide ready to eat meals on a weekly basis |
| MDM beneficiaries | Cash transfer | Benefit transferred to parents’ bank account |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Advance payment of pension for two months |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to Sannirman Karmkaar Mandal | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| Workers in industrial units | Consent | Legal consent was necessary before workers are asked to work overtime |
| Increased payment | Overtime wages to be double the normal wages | |
| Security | Notice period before retrenchment increased from one month to three months |
Homeless, destitute, migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Homeless; poor; stranded migrant workers | Shelter; food | Food packets will be distributed at Rain baseras (night shelter homes) |
Industries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Industrial units | Increased work time | Industrial units permitted to increase shifts from eight to 12 hours per day |
| Factories required to keep 61 registers and file 13 returns | Relaxation | Allowed to keep one register and file one return |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Insurance | 15 lakh farmers of the state will receive a total Rs. 2990 crore against crop insurance through the bank account |
| – | Sales | Arrangements made for wheat to be procured at MSP |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Stranded in other states | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Unorganized workers from other states staying back | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Returning migrants | Employment service | Rozgar Setu portal launched to map skills of returning migrant workers and facilitate provision of employment by connecting workers with potential employer |
Frontline Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Sanitation workers | Insurance | Insurance coverage doubled from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1lakh in case of death due to accident and from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh in case of normal death |
Maharashtra
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | The number of ‘Shiv Thali’ subsidised meal scheme increased to 100,000 plates per day at reduced rates (₹5 from ₹10)- Shiv Bhojan centres at tehsil level offering subsidized lunch for the next 3 months |
| Concession | 5 percent reduction in tariff for electricity for the residential consumers | |
| Insurance | Free health insurance (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana) to all citizens |
COVID Patients
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Tested positive for CoViD | Heath expenses | Free treatment. Payment according to Ayushman Bharat norms |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| In-kind transfer | One month ration to be provided free of cost | |
| Orange ration cardholders | Subsidized ration | 3 kg wheat and 2 kg rice at Rs 8 per kg and Rs 12 per kg in May and June |
Students/Children
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Primary and upper primary school students | Cash transfer | Cost of MDM to be deposited in the accounts of students |
| Beneficiaries of Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Amrut Aahar Yojana | Service | Food provided at home |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | 262 relief camps set up |
| Workers coming back and workers leaving | Travel | Travel expenses to be borne by government |
Women
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Amrut Aahar Yojana | Service | Food provided at home |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2000 |
Manipur
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Stranded outside state | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 2000 |
Meghalaya
General Public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Essential commodities | Permission | Notified shops dealing in essential goods, courier services for essential goods, E-Commerce operations in essential goods and Common Service Centres are permitted to open in the State except in Shillong Urban Agglomeration and Mylliem Block of East Khasi Hills District with effect from 24th April 2020. |
| Senior Citizens | Exemption on travel | Exempting senior citizens who are above the age of 60 years from obtaining vehicle pass and curfew pass. The senior citizen should carry their valid photo ID card along with them as proof of age while they travel |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered with BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1000 per worker per week from 23rd March to 29th March |
| Workers/employees | Payment | To be paid full salary/wages for the period of lockdown |
| Domestic workers | Security | Employers instructed to refrain from the eviction of domestic workers during the lockdown period |
| Daily wage earners | Service | Headmen and leaders of traditional institutions, labour unions, workers union, NGOs requested to assist and facilitate filling up of account opening forms by the daily wage earners |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs 700 per week under the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme |
Mizoram
General Public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Digital application | Mobile application developed by the ICT Department to disseminate information about the pandemic recently integrated mPASS |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Arrangements for food and shelter to be made |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | In-kind transfer | One month’s supply of rice (as per norms of BPL, AAY) free of cost |
| Registered to BoCW before Dec 2019 | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 3000 |
| BPL, AAY beneficiaries but not registered with BoCW | In-kind transfer | One month’s supply of rice (as per norms of BPL, AAY) free of cost |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Starting with Class 10 students | Home-schooling | Home lessons will be telecast daily from Monday to Saturday on Doordarshan Kendra Aizawl |
Frontline Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Insurance | A lump sum compensation of 20.00 lakh shall be payable to the families of government employees not governed by Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 who die due to Covid-19 contracted during performance of duties. |
Nagaland
Door delivering firms
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Essential commodity | Financial assistance | Rs. 25000 financial assistance to registered home delivery firms delivering essential commodities |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Financial Aid | Ex Gratia grant of Rs. 10 lakh for fatalities to frontline workers due to COVID19 |
Odisha
COVID Patients
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Tested positive for CoViD | Medical expenses | Free of cost treatment to all Covid-19 patients admitted to in the newly built dedicated Covid-19 hospitals in the State |
NFSA beneficiaries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1,000 |
| Ration card holders | In-kind transfer | 3 months ration to be distributed between April 1st and 15th May |
| Ration card holders in urban areas | Service | Home delivery of rations |
Food security scheme beneficiaries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Additional cash transfer | Rs 1,000 |
ICDS Beneficiaries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Service | Eggs to be distributed to households every week; Doorstep deliveries of Take Home Ration (THR) and ration for Hot Cooked Meal (HCR) from 1st April to 30th April by AWCs |
Pregnant and lactating mothers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Service | Dry ration entitlement to be provided |
Student
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MDM beneficiaries | In-kind transfer | MDM dry ration for 90 days (in addition to NFSA entitlement) to be provided in one go through FPS |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Pension for three months will be paid in advance |
| Pensioners in urban areas | Service | Home delivery of pension |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Stranded labourers | Movement | Permitting stranded labourers to travel within State for work |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1500 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | 250 camps set up where food and in some cases healthcare provided |
| Unorganized workers in other states | Administrative | Response team (12 senior officials) constituted. The officials are coordinating relief activities with counterparts in other states |
| Service | 20-line call centre has been made operational round the clock |
Health workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Doctors, medical and paramedical staff | Payment | Four months’ advance salary to be transferred |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Employees who are on COVID-19 duty | Financial coverage | Announcement of Rs. 50 lakh coverage for employees who are on COVID 19 duty |
Puducherry
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional cash transfer | Rs 2000 to be transferred to each family, through DBT system |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Shelter with food, bedding and other essentials provided |
Homeless
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Urban areas | Shelter | Shelter with food, bedding and other essentials provided |
Punjab
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | Defer the due date of making payment of water and sewerage bills by one month in all Municipal Corporations and Councils |
| Service | Dial 112 helpline has also been launched for doorstep delivery of food, medicines and essential commodities | |
| Deferred and reduced payment | Reduction in fixed charges for electricity consumers, along with deferment of the deadline for payment of bills | |
| Incentive | 1% rebate will be given to the consumers (exclusive of any previous arrears) who will pay electricity bills online through digital modes by the original due date | |
| Service | Can order essential commodities to retailers through WhatsApp with the items needed and address. Can pay by post or cash on delivery | |
| Helpline | Any person, woman, child, senior citizen are suffering from domestic violence during the ongoing curfew/lockdown, then they can contact at toll-free number 1968, and assured timely support to them | |
| Women | Service | Free distribution of 20,000 sanitary pads to ensure menstrual hygiene underway in Sangrur |
| Children, Pregnant women and Lactating mothers | Service | Department of women and child development delivers dry rations to children, pregnant ladies and lactating mothers
|
Property owners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Paying property tax | Tax cut | Extended the amnesty scheme on property tax till May 31, 2020 |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MDM beneficiaries- primary school students | In-kind transfer | 100gm of wheat and rice to be provided at home in sealed packets (from Mar 23-Apr 15) |
| Additional cash transfer | Cooking cost (Rs.4.48 per day) of mid-day-meal to be transferred | |
| MDM beneficiaries- upper primary school students | In-kind transfer | 150gm of wheat and rice to be provided at home in sealed packets (from Mar 23-Apr 15) |
| Additional cash transfer | Cooking cost (Rs.6.71 per day) of mid-day-meal to be transferred | |
| Private school students | Suspended payment | No fees to be collected from students |
| Students of technical education universities | Service | Online classes to be conducted |
| Meritorious schools | Admission extension | Punjab Government extends registration date for admission to meritorious schools Education Board has also changed the eligibility criteria for applicants from June 5, at 9 am and will be closed on June 15, 2020 at 5pm |
| Associated schools | Extension | Punjab government provides one-year extension to associated schools. Schools to ensure safety of students; will have to fulfil criteria before December 31, 2020 to continue classes |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Two instalments of Rs. 3000 each |
| Daily wagers and unorganized labourers | In-kind transfer | Packets of 10 kg of flour, 2 kg of pulses and 2 kg of sugar distributed door-to-door |
| Labourers | Security | Strict action to be taken against people not paying salary to labour or terminating their services |
| MGNREGA workers | Payment | All pending ages cleared |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | In-kind transfer | Packets of 10 kg of flour, 2 kg of pulses and 2 kg of sugar distributed door-to-door |
| Shelter | School buildings to be opened out for accommodation | |
| Work | Industries, brick kilns allowed to operate if migrants can be accommodated safely and be provided food | |
| Migrants from other states residing in Punjab | Service | Online portal for the registration of migrant workers who are interested in returning to their home states |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | Government to buy produce from farmers |
| – | Do’s & Don’t’s | Issued advisory for safe farming practices during harvesting |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Needs clarity | Health | Free food and medicines to the needy in the state |
Industries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Medium Supply (MS) and Large Supply (LS) Industrial Consumers | Reduced payment | The fixed charges of the industrial consumers will also be exempted for the next two months, w.e.f 23.3.2020, and Energy Charges may be fixed commensurate with the reduction in Fixed Charges (single rate). |
| Salary | The industrial units and institutions have been asked to pay salaries to their personnel and labourers through transactions on digital platforms without deduction of the lockdown period. | |
| Relaxation | The industry should take full advantage of relaxations given by Punjab govt: chairman Amarjit Singh tikka; Urges them to follow all directions of Punjab govt & health department; Assures that industrialists would not face any problems. | |
Capt. Amarinder directs industries dept & DCS to give approval & curfew passes for reopening to eligible industry within 12 hours. |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Police personnel, sanitation workers | Incentive | Health insurance cover of Rs 50 lakhs |
| Police, Health and other administration officials who don’t wish to go home | Accommodation | PCA, Purab premium apartments to furnish flats/rooms for frontline fighters against coronavirus not wishing to go home |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Contractual workers in School education department | Extension | Punjab Government extends one year tenure of contractual workers in school education department |
Rajasthan
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Service | Home delivery of ration and essential commodities |
| Deferred payment | Electricity and water bills for March and April can be paid in May | |
| Incentive | 5% discount in the next electricity bill for agriculture and domestic category consumers if they pay by May 31, 2020 | |
| Needy Persons | Food | Indira Rasoi Yojana (Indira Kitchen Scheme) to come true on the state government’s resolution of ‘No One Sleeps Hungry’. Under this scheme the needy persons will be provided pure and nutritious food twice a day on concessionalrates |
Ration cardholders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | In-kind transfer | Distribution of quota of three months and the process is going on to distribute the 15 kg wheat and 3 kg of pulses per person for three months. This is in addition to wheat and pulses being distributed together for six months under the National Food Security Act, 2013. |
| BPL families | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
| Ration cardholders | In-kind transfer | 1kg channa dal at free of cost |
| NFSA Beneficiaries | In-kind transfer | Free wheat disbursement for the months of April, June and July. |
Industries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Deferred payment | Deferred fixed charges on electricity connections in proportion to the lockdown period till May 31, 2020, for March and April bills |
| Relief in payment of electricity until June 30 |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Seeds | Millet seeds to provided for free for Kharif 2020 |
| ST farmers | Seeds | Maize seeds to provided for free for Kharif 2020 |
| – | Payment relief | Relief in payment of electricity until June 30 |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Two month’s pensions to be released |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered to BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| Registered street vendors | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Not included in the NFSA list | In-kind transfer | 5 kg atta, 1/2 cooking oil, 1/2 kg salt, 1kg dal, 1kg rice free of cost |
| Poor and deprived families | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1500 |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| MGNREGA | Benefits | MGNREGA to be given priority for personal benefit works: Deputy Chief Minister increases tenfold workers in four days, 62 thousand to 6.08 lakh workers |
Sikkim
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Families without a government job | In-kind transfer | Provision of rice, pulses, cooking oil, salt, potatoes and onions |
| Sikkim people stranded | Movement | Online registration system to facilitate return of people of Sikkim stranded |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Labourers working in all pharma companies | Payment | The daily wage of Rs. 300 |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Including police personnel, health department workers, truck drivers, safai karmacharis | Additional cash transfer | Rs.3000 |
| Incentive | Insurance provided |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Standard one to eights | In-kind transfer | Providing food grains (rice) to meet the nutritional requirements for students of standard one to eight under the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme |
| All | Fee extension | Advisory issued by Education Department to all private schools to give extension for paying fees and waving of certain charges like library and games. |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Farmers in the field of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and allied sectors corresponding with the variety of loans catering to different needs by the banks with regard to Dairy, Poultry, Piggery, Fisheries, Kishan Credit Card (KCC), Mudra Loan etc | Loan | Provision to release subsidised loan to the farmers of Sikkim |
Tamil Nadu
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Food | Food will be supplied through Amma Canteens |
| District collectors to create common kitchens to cook food and distribute it to the destitute | ||
| Chennai | Health | Door to door health check-ups (medication provided if needed) |
| Service | Door-step delivery of fruits and vegetables through web-platform ‘Ethottam’ | |
| Tamilians staying abroad | Returning to Tamil Nadu | Online registration facility has been created to obtain information about Tamils who want to return to Tamil Nadu from abroad |
| Red-zone free districts | Movement | No e-pass needed for local movement within distritcs |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Additional Cash transfer | ₹1000 |
| In-kind transfer | Free rice, dal, cooking oil and sugar | |
| Subsidized ration | Essential food commodities can be available from fair price shops for Rs.500 | |
| In-kind transfer | Token issue for free essential commodities for the month of May, 2020 for the Family Card holders | |
| Free essential commodities for the month of July, 2020 for Family Card holders |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Members of BoCW | Additional cash transfer | ₹1000 |
| In-kind transfer | 15 kg of rice, 1 kg of dal and 1 kg of cooking oil | |
| Members of autorickshaw drivers welfare board | Additional cash transfer | ₹1000 |
| In-kind transfer | 15 kg of rice, 1 kg of dal and 1 kg of cooking oil | |
| Working under MGNREGA | Additional cash transfer | Two-day special salary |
| Non-registered hairdressers | Cash transfer | ₹2000 |
| Platform vendors registered with the government | Additional cash transfer | ₹1000 |
| Non-registered members of the Tamil Nadu Handlooms and Handloom Silk Weavers Welfare Board | Cash transfer | Two instalments of Rs.1000 |
| Non-registered informal workers | Service | Online portal for registration of unorganized wokers |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | In-kind transfer | 15 kg of rice, 1 kg of dal and 1 kg of cooking oil |
| Shelter | District collectors to ensure that the employees from other states get proper food and accommodation | |
| Deferred payment | House owners have been asked to suspend rent collection for 2 months |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Service | Helpline in all districts to support farmers in case they are facing difficulty in sales |
| Vegetable cultivation | Incentive | Incentive of Rs.2500/hectare every year as an incentive to cultivate vegetables |
Manufacturers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Tiller manufacturing companies | Credit | Tiller manufacturing companies who plan to collect directly from the farm and distribute fruits and vegetables get loan up to 10 lakhs |
Elderly
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Who depends on Anganwadis | Service | Food will be distributed directly to them in their homes |
Third gender
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | In-kind transfer | 12kg rice, 1kg Dal, 1litre cooking oil per head |
Workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| TN Cine welfare board | Cash assistance | Relief Assistance to members of TN Cine Workers Welfare Board |
| Resumption | Post production related works can be resumed from May 11. | |
| Match factory workers | Cash assistance | Relief assistance to Match Factory workers affected due to COVID-19 |
| – | Cash transfer | Fishermen, transgenders, fireworks manufacturers, staffs working in the film industry + 14 other categories of employers to receive cash of Rs.1000/- per head.
|
| Government employees at retirement period | Extension of the retirement period | Increase in the age of retirement of government employees from 58 to 59
|
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Education fee | Deferred Payment | No private educational institutions should insist on students or their parents to pay their educational fee |
| Disabled students attending public examination | service | Transport arrangement for the Students with Disabilities to attend the Public Examination |
Telangana
General Public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Property holders | Rent deferment | Deferment of collection of rentals for a period of 3 months w.e.f March 2020 for properties leased for residential purposes |
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| White card holder | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1500 to be given to each white cardholder towards the purchase of edible oil, dal, vegetables and other essentials for two months (April – May) |
| In-kind transfer | 12kg rice per person to be transferred |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Additional cash transfer | Rs 500 cash |
| In-kind transfer | 12kg rice per person to be transferred |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | Government to procure entire produce of farmers |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Food | Free meals to be provided through 150 Annapurna centres in Hyderabad |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Contract and Outsourced staff members of the Medical and Health department | Incentive | 10% of their gross salary/ remuneration |
| Regular and outsourced Sanitation Employees/ personnel of GHMC | Incentive | Rs.7500 |
| Regular and outsourced Water Supply Linemen and Sewerage Workers of HMWS & SB | Incentive | Rs.7500 |
| Regular and outsourced Sanitation Employees/ personnel of all Municipal Corporations and Municipalities other than GHMC | Incentive | Rs.5000 |
| Regular and outsourced Sanitary cum Multi-Purpose Workers of Gram Panchayats | Incentive | Rs.5000 |
| Police personnel | Full payment | Payment of full salary to the police personnel working in Vigilance& Enforcement who are deputed for Bondobast duties |
| Building & construction workers in GHMC | Free Meal | Providing Annapurna meals for free |
Uttar Pradesh
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| All | Service | Essential commodities will be delivered to doorstep (10000 vehicles identified for the same) |
| Food | 527 community kitchens set up | |
| Deferred payment | Payment deadline for electricity bills generated between March 1 and April 14 extended to April 30 with no surcharge on repayment and 1% rebate on payment made on the due date | |
| Tax waives | Penalty waived in case of non-payment of motor vehicle tax, where such payment was due in March and April 2020 but is made within a month of issuing this notification | |
| Those who don’t fall under state schemes and whose livelihood has been affected | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
Pensioners
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Beneficiaries of existing social security schemes | Cash transfer | Two month’s (April, May) pensions to be released |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered with BoCW | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| In-kind transfer | One month stock of food grains to be provided free of cost | |
| Self employed cart owners, small shop owners and rikshaw pullers | Additional cash transfer | Rs.1000 |
| Service | Immediate measures to get ration cards made if they don’t have one | |
| Antyodaya workers | In-kind transfer | One month stock of food grains (20kg wheat, 15kg rice) to be provided free of cost |
| Small wage earners | In-kind transfer | One month stock of food grains (20kg wheat, 15kg rice) to be provided free of cost |
| MGNREGA card holders | In-kind transfer | One month stock of food grains (20kg wheat, 15kg rice) to be provided free of cost |
| Daily wage earners | Service | Immediate measures to get ration cards made if they don’t have one |
| Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Migrants returning from other states | Shelter | State run camps set up for 14 day quarantine |
| Incoming migrants | food/ration card | Incoming migrant workers to be provided ration cards in a phased manner; food grains will be provided even if ration card not available |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Sales | Procurement of mustard, gram, masoor at MSP |
Industries
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Reduced payment | UPPCL will not levy fixed charges on the industrial and commercial connections for March and April |
Uttarakhand
General public
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Deferred payment | Power connections not to be terminated for failure to pay bill till 30 June |
Informal workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Registered labourers | Additional cash transfers | Rs.1000 |
Farmers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| With loans in cooperative banks | Moratorium | Three-month moratorium on repayment of loans to cooperative banks |
Senior citizens, the sick and the helpless
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| – | Service | Essentials to be delivered at the doorsteps |
Frontline workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| In the event of the death of frontline workers | Compensation | Rs. 10 lakh for families of health workers |
West Bengal
Ration card holders
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Those receiving subsidized rice at Rs.2/kg and wheat at Rs.3/kg | In-kind transfer | Rice and wheat to be provided free of cost till September (max 5kg per month) |
Health workers
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Doctors, nurses and health workers and other helping tackle the crisis (both government and private) | Incentive | Special leave provision to be provided which may be availed after Durga pooja |
| Health insurance of care workers to be topped by another 5 lakh to 10 lakh |
Students
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Students of class 9-12 of state-run schools | Service | One week-long virtual classroom for students |
Needy
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Need for clarity | Shelter | Temporary shelters to be provided along with food |
Migrants
| Criteria | Intervention type | Intervention |
| Unorganized workers from other states/ regions staying back | Shelter | Temporary shelters to be provided along with food |
| Stranded in other states | Additional cash transfer | Rs. 1000 |
