Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a special economic package for people and industries affected by the lockdown implemented to prevent corona virus infection. He said that he is announcing this package to make the country self-reliant.
Prime Minister Modi announced this in his address to the nation at eight o’clock on Tuesday evening. He said that if the package announced by him today and the economic package given by the government and the relief given through the decisions of the Reserve Bank, the government announced an economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore in 2020. He said that this is equivalent to 10 percent of India’s GDP.
Prime Minister Modi said, “I am announcing a special economic package today, with a new resolution, facing the Corona crisis. This economic package will serve as an important link to the self-reliant India campaign. The economic announcements that the government recently made related to the Corona crisis, Add to that the decision of the Reserve Bank and the economic package that is being announced today, it is about 20 lakh crore rupees. This package is about 10 percent of India’s GDP.
He said, “Through all this, various sections of the country, the links of the economic system will get the support of 20 lakh crore rupees”.
PM Modi said that this crisis is so big, that the biggest systems have been shaken. But under these circumstances, we, the country have also seen the struggle-power of our poor brothers and sisters, their restraint-power.
