1. Provident scheme regulations will be amendment to allow non-refundable advance of 75 percent or three months’ wages, whichever is lower. This will benefit 4.8 crore workers who are registered with the EPF.
2. Centre will pay the EPF contribution both, of the employer & of the employee (12 percent each) for the next three months. This is for all those establishments that have up to 100 employees and 90 percent of whom earn under Rs 15,000 p.m.
3. Women Jan Dhan account holders to get Rs 500 p.m. for the next three months.
4. There are 63 lakh self-help groups for women in the country. They get up to Rs 10 lakh collateral-free loans right now. We are doubling that to Rs 20 lakh.
5. 8.3 crore families below poverty line will get free LPG cylinders for three months.
6. Poor senior citizens, widows and ‘divyangs’ to receive Rs 1,000 over the next three months.
Further, cash transfer will be through DBT in eight parts: Farmers, MNREGA, widows, poor pensioners, divyang, women under Jan Dhan Yojana, women and households under Ujjwala scheme, self-help groups for women especially under the livelihood mission, organized sector workers under EPFO, construction workers and district mineral funds.
7. Wage increase under MNREGA will benefit 5 crore families. Wage increase will result in additional income of Rs 2,000 per worker.
8. They receive Rs 6,000 per annum through the PM-KISAN scheme. We will now frontload the first instalment. Around 8.69 crore farmer will get immediate benefit out of this.
9. 80 crore people will come under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana (food scheme)’. Every one under this scheme will get 5 kg of wheat/rice for free in addition to what they are already getting. We will also give one kg of one choice of pulse to each household under this scheme for the next three months. They can take it in two instalments also.
10. The finance minister has announced medical insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh per health worker.

