In Madhya Pradesh, total number of COVID19 cases has gone up to 2330 with around 200 new cases reported in last 24 hours. 110 patients died so far, while 357 patients have been cured and discharged from the various hospitals.
Indore has become the hotspot of COVID19, where the total number of cases has gone up to 1372.Bhopal is in second with 428 corona positive cases.
Meanwhile, Gram Panchayats in Madhya Pradesh have come forward to help poor families and migrant laborers.
The state government has made arrangements to provide delicious food and food grains to the migrant workers and other poor families living in rural areas of the state through the Gram
Panchayats.
Additional Chief Secretary Manoj Shrivastava said that 8 lakh 70 thousand labourers have been provided delicious food in 22 thousand 812 panchayats.
Director Panchayat Raj B S Jamod informed that about 37 to 38 thousand families are being served delicious meals daily by the Gram Panchayats.
Apart from that, 4 kg wheat and one kg rice per person have also been provided to one lakh 92 thousand beneficiaries so far.
The Panchayat Raj Directorate had already issued instructions to the sarpanches of all the gram panchayats that they can use their funds as well as funds given by central government to ensure food to the poor families of the village.