AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, April 2 (TIWN): Delhi government on Friday transferred Rs 5,000 each to eight lakh beneficiaries under widow, differently-abled and elderly pension schemes while promising to transfer another Rs 5,000 in the first week of April to help them tide over the crisis emerging out of the spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent national lock-down.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the eight lakh beneficiaries include five lakh elderly, two lakh widows and one lakh disabled. He said another installment will be paid in the first week of next month.

Thus the total amount is Rs. 10,000.

He also appealed to migrant workers leaving Delhi to come back saying the government is arranging food for them. The Delhi government on Friday enhanced the capacity to serve two lakh people from 20,000 while it plans to double it to four lakh from Saturday.

In a recent update in Tripura it has been known, various households are getting back their maids in homes and also rickshaw drivers are on road amid FIR’s chances, affecting the Lockdown’s purpose and social distances. Whereas Delhi Govt is giving Rs. 5,000 + Rs. 5000 = Rs. 10,000 to each poor/daily worker without any relief fund, here in Tripura crores and crores were donated in CM’s relief fund but Govt neither announcing the fund amount nor helping the poor with cash.