ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has offered to help India in overcoming the coronavirus crisis.
In a tweet on Thursday, the prime minister shared a news report and wrote that 34 percent of households across India will not be able to survive more than a week without additional assistance.
Acc to this report, 34% of households across India will not be able to survive for more than a week without add assistance. I am ready to offer help & share our successful cash transfer prog, lauded internationally for its reach & transparency, with India.https://t.co/CcvUf6wERM
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 11, 2020
The prime minister wrote, “I am ready to offer help and share our successful cash transfer prog, lauded internationally for its reach and transparency, with India.”
The fall in incomes has affected people in India, the study found. “Households in the lowest of the five income groups had average monthly per-capital earnings of less than Rs3,800 (about $50), while those at the high end made between Rs. 12,374 and upwards of Rs1 lakh ($167 to $1,370 and more),” the reported stated.
In another tweet, he wrote that the federal government successfully transferred Rs. 120 billion in nine weeks to over 10 million families in a transparent manner to deal with the COVID19 fallout on the poor.
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