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Covid-19: Big bang economic package from PM Modi puts the country in reset mode

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PM Modi announces a ₹20 trillion stimulus package to reinvigorate the economy and a new strategy to ensure that the country becomes self-reliant Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a ₹20 trillion ($265 billion) stimulus package, in one of the world’s most aggressive bailouts in relation to economic size, equating to about 10% of gross domestic product (GDP).

The stimulus is aimed at softening the devastating fallout of the coronavirus lockdown that has rendered millions of people jobless and pushed thousands of businesses to the brink of bankruptcy as the economy has suddenly gone idle.

The fiscal package, details of which will be announced by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman starting Wednesday, also aims to build an India

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