Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today announced a life insurance cover of up to 35 lakh per person to over 1 lakh Food Corporation of India, FCI officials and labourers in case they succumb to coronavirus after six months of performing duty from the day of lockdown on March 24.
State-owned FCI is the Centre’s nodal agency that is engaged in procurement of foodgrains at a minimum support price MSP directly from farmers and distributes the same at a subsidised rate to over 81 crore ration card holders in the country.
Currently, there is a provision to provide compensation to family members of FCI officials in case of death due to terrorist attack, bomb blast, mob violence and natural disasters. However, regular and contractual labourers are not included. Mr Paswan said, FCI labourers will get 15 lakh rupees, contractual labourers 10 lakh rupees and other FCI staff to get 25 to 35 lakh rupees in case of death due to COVID-19.
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