Revenue Minister R Ashoka stated that he had detailed discussions with the Chief Minister and Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Health Minister K Sudhakar in this regard.
India s GDP contracts by 7.3% in FY2020-21, rises 1.6% in Q4
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May 31, 2021
New Delhi, May 31: India s economy grew by 1.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020-21, restricting the full-year contraction to 7.3 per cent, official data showed on Monday.
The fourth quarter growth was better than the 0.5 per cent expansion in the previous October-December quarter of 2020-21.
The gross domestic product (GDP) had expanded by 3 per cent in the corresponding January-March period of 2019-20, according to data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO).
In 2020-21, the Indian economy contracted by 7.3 per cent against 4 per cent expansion in 2019-20, showing the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Karnataka Revenue Minister R. Ashoka said on Monday that tough measures like a lockdown should continue as long as a city like Bengaluru registers more than 500 Covid cases daily while the state has over 2,500 cases.After the second Covid wave .
New Delhi, May 29: India on Saturday continued to report a dip in daily Covid-19 infections with 1.73 lakh new cases in the last 24 hours. With 3,617 new fatalities, the death toll due to the virus reached 3,22,512.