(LiveMint)
India is set to announce measures to further open up its economy based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with chief ministers on Monday as the 54-day national lockdown nears its end on 17 May. Balancing efforts to contain covid-19 with the need to help revive the economy, the government will further ease curbs on economic activities in the coming days even as efforts to check the spread of the pandemic will continue, a senior home ministry official said, citing Modi.
“Slowly but surely, economic activities have begun to pick up. In the coming days, this process will further gather steam. We must realise that the fight against covid-19 has to be more focused now,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited Modi as saying.
