How To Keep Economic Development In Line With Saving Lives, PM Narendra Modi On Coronavirus Lockdown

After hearing from Indian people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue to consider every Chief Minister's points of view. After that, he will think of whether extending or ending the coronavirus lockdown. However, he will announce the final decision to everyone directly when it comes nearly to April 14.

On Thursday and Friday, the PM made presentations created by his empowered groups and principal advisors upon the balance between facing the pandemic and livelihood in 6 hours. As of now, the country isn't prepared for a worse situation of Stage 3 - coronavirus community transmission due to a lack of the medical infrastructure.

A senior member of the empowered committees said:

"The earliest call to make is to extend the lockdown, the toughest one is how to lift it so that India does not go into negative growth."

On April 10, PM Modi listened to suggestions from his major advisors led by Principal Advisor P K Sinha, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, CEO NITI Aaayog Amitabh Kant, Principal Secretary PK Mishra, Additional Secretary (PMO) AK Sharma, and Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba.

We all understand that saving Indian lives is important and another thing is on the same key consideration is the economic revision when containers are jamming the ports and some main port cities such as Chennai and Mumbai are affected by COVID-19.

A senior official stated:

"We have to revive activity in ports so that essential containers are locked behind non-essential containers and hence required to be removed. If we start the essential activity, then the patrol constable on the road must learn to distinguish between the essential and non-essential."

Due to the emergency situation of reviving economic activities in the time of the coronavirus lockdown, the country would be designed to seal the red, green, and yellow zones. Since then, the red zones of the most severely-affected areas will remain closed. Meanwhile, the yellow zones with less and controlled numbers of infected cases will go under monitoring but people will be permitted to move. Whereas the green zones with a better track will be allowed to come back to normal.

An official believes the upcoming season of harvesting can recover a part for the nation's economy. He shared:

"There are some 400 districts in this country that are not affected by the virus. We may look at opening them to activity and take a graded call on other districts by labelling them in yellow and green zones. One must not forget that the harvesting season begins from April 14 and India is a largely agrarian economy."

At this time, PM Narendra Modi has been planning to provide HCQ, PPE, and masks during the meetings and conferences. This means that he is ready to understand the whole effect of the coronavirus lockdown after this weekend to make the final decision. As published his credibility to everyone, what he will decide will take effect to the last word.

Earlier, the PM had shared a hint of a possibility to maintain the lockdown more. Watch the video below: