Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the economic package for sectors affected by Coronavirus can be announced as soon as possible. He did not mention any deadline for this. Simultaneously, Sitharaman said this in a conversation with reporters after a meeting with ministers and officials of the civil aviation, animal husbandry, tourism and MSME ministries regarding the Covid-19 transition. With this, after a four-hour meeting, the Finance Minister said, "I have held a meeting with Tourism, MSME, Civil Aviation, Animal Husbandry sectors. These ministries presented their sector-related assessments after discussions with the stakeholders concerned. Along with this, we discussed in detail the presence of the Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs Secretary. We are compiling his suggestions in one place.''
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Sitharaman said that the ministry may meet on an internal level on Saturday to prepare an action plan to deal with the current crisis. When asked about the package, Sitharaman said, "It is difficult to give the deadline but it can be done as soon as possible". With this, the Finance Minister said that the task force announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thi, it is yet to be formed. Prime Minister Modi in his address to the nation on Thursday said that the government will form a 'Covid-19 Economic Response Task Force' to decide the relief package for sectors affected by a coronavirus.
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Simultaneously, Sitharaman said, "The task force has not been formed yet, but keeping in view the emergency, the ministry is organizing this meeting." Also, when the task force is actually formed, it will benefit from these meetings. Other Ministries are also sending their suggestions.”After the meeting, Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said that the Ministry is assessing the situation. He said, "We all know that the tourism sector has been affected. With this, the Finance Ministry is already concerned about the effect of Coronavirus in all sectors. We will decide whether the industry should be given some kind of package or not after doing proper damage to the sector nowadays.
