Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan

COVID-19 pandemic has affected the life of everyone across the world.  The pandemic has an impact on workforce in general and migrant workers particularly in the country.

Government of India realized that in order to provide focused & timely support to returnee migrant workers along with other rural people, a concerted effort is required converging and pooling resources of different schemes/programme of Central Government, focusing on specific actions, laying specific timelines and fixing accountability for results in shape of an Abhiyaan. This Abhiyaan platform would welcome the efforts of Ministries and State Governments for convergent action for higher quantum of benefits to the migrant workers and rural communities. Abhiyaan would set the stage for a longer-term action for a longer-term initiative for jobs and livelihoods for those who chose to stay back.

The Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) is a 125-day Abhiyaan launched by Prime Minister on 20^th June, 2020 with a mission to address the issues of returnee migrant workers and similarly affected rural population by Covid-19 pandemic through a multi-pronged strategy of providing immediate employment & livelihood opportunities to the distressed, to saturate the villages with public infrastructure and creation of livelihood assets to boost the income generation activities and enhance long term livelihood opportunities by giving focus on 25 works in 116 selected districts across 6 States with a resource envelope of Rs 50,000 crore.

Abhiyaan would set the stage for a longer-term action for a longer-term initiative for jobs and livelihoods for those who chose to stay back.