Pakistan PM Imran Khan is ready to share a cash transfer scheme to deal with COVID-19 in India. Has India accepted this?
Imran Khan (PM of Pakistan)
Pakistan Prime minister Imran Khan announced he is ready to share a cash transfer scheme with India, citing a report which stated that 34 percent of Indian households will not be able to persist for more than a week without support.
Imran Khan presented this announcement after tweeting a report which claimed that due to rising cases of COVID-19 in India approximately 84 percent of Indian households were reporting reductions in income since the lockdown.
“Our govt successfully transferred Rs. 120 billion in 9 weeks to over 10 million families in a transparent manner to deal with the COVID-19 fallout on the poor,” Imran Khan tweeted.
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
Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had also batted for cash transfer stating the money should be put straight in the pockets of the people. He also continued that ‘Nyay’ could be executed for a short period to help the people in trouble.
Rahul presented this statement after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared three tranches of the relief package after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 20 lakh crore package.
As of now the size of India's Economy has become $2088 billion which held it as the 7th largest economy in the entire world. On the other hand, the size of Pakistan's economy is about $273 billion. So, India's GDP is almost 7 times greater than Pakistan's economy. But when it comes to the population the greater population in India makes it challenging in the efficient transfer of cash and as India is being termed a subcontinent, it has a lot of diverse landmasses which is also a major concern.
