buy pomegranates, maybe even a dragon fruit As Punjab rolls out cash assistance, hope, celebration among women

For the past several weeks, Paramjeet Kaur had been been thinking about what she would do if the Punjab government’s promised monthly assistance finally reached her bank account. She debated multiple options, before deciding that she would it spend it on a necessity.

“I will buy pomegranates to have its juice. It increases haemoglobin. Ek dragon fruit vi le ke aayongi… ameer hi hune tak khande si es fruit nu…ek vari main vi taste kar ke dekhungi (I will buy a dragon fruit too. Only the rich seem to eat it. Now I too will taste it once),” said the MGNREGA (now VB-GRAM-G) worker from Patiala, moments after receiving a message from the bank informing her that Rs 4,500 had been credited.

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