Lockdown will help health system be better prepared, but there’ll be many jobless & destitute. The Rs 1.7 lakh crore package announced Thursday is a start.
The National Testing Agency was supposed to release admit cards on 27 March. It has now been delayed until 14 April, when the 21-day lockdown ends, and beyond.
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh said that with Rs. 84 crores pending wages for upto 1.30 lakh workers, families would find it hard to sustain during the 21-day lockdown.
A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.
Govt has decided to expand the list of ‘essential services’ to ensure manufacturing of goods like medicines and food material, and their smooth delivery.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
A very realistic assessment. For years I had been wondering how the governments were managing to pay such fabulous salaries. Staff of loss-making banks flying off to Andamans on LTC. Free electricity, water, rations,pensions to fake poor. Some army officials driving BMW or Mercedes cars, low level FCI officials holding weddings in 5- star hotels, all this baffled me for years. Now the picture is clear— all the fun and games were financed by borrowed money. Corona has brought the good times to an end.
your idea on economy and covid 19 handling are fine and realistic but can you manage to get it on the table I dont’t think in the present one man rule in India it is possible.
Thanks. There are enough and more wiser advisors engaged with Governments. Best would be to enjoy the unexpected, though unfortunate, solitude that we have got forced into.
A very realistic assessment. For years I had been wondering how the governments were managing to pay such fabulous salaries. Staff of loss-making banks flying off to Andamans on LTC. Free electricity, water, rations,pensions to fake poor. Some army officials driving BMW or Mercedes cars, low level FCI officials holding weddings in 5- star hotels, all this baffled me for years. Now the picture is clear— all the fun and games were financed by borrowed money. Corona has brought the good times to an end.
your idea on economy and covid 19 handling are fine and realistic but can you manage to get it on the table I dont’t think in the present one man rule in India it is possible.
Thanks. There are enough and more wiser advisors engaged with Governments. Best would be to enjoy the unexpected, though unfortunate, solitude that we have got forced into.
Neither the UPA nor the Modi government listened to the economists. As a result we are in a horrible mess that could destabilize the country.
Unless you can prove that you are smarter than 20 man Modi team, you should keep your advice to yourselves.