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COVID-19 Lockdown: Unbearable Half Measures of Modi Government -Subodh Varma

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An insufficient economic package for welfare of the poor has been announced almost two months after WHO declared it a public emergency.

Prime Minister Modi suddenly announced a 21-day lockdown on March 24 across India as a rather belated and overwrought response to the looming coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that has now spread around the world in 175 countries, striking at over 4.75 lakh persons (confirmed) and killing over 21,000.

Two days later, on March 26, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a package of financial measures mainly directed at providing some relief to poorer and disadvantaged sections of the people. At a press conference in New Delhi, she claimed that this package would entail spending of Rs. 1.7 lakh crore under a new programme called Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojna. It will offer relief to 80 crore people, according to her, and would take effect immediately.

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