Abhijit Banerjee stated that many people are still left out of welfare schemes and for that the governments should take the risk of corruption and misappropriation and just make funds available to local authorities so they can distribute money to the people who need it.
The package to benefit the poor and medical workers during the Coronavirus lockdown was called 'Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan Yojana and totalled a whopping 1.70 lakh crores.