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"Ecommerce should be allowed to be able to work because overall understanding of the whole essentials and non-essentials, it is not the same as it was last year."
MSMEs feeling brunt of Covid pain, need focused stimulus: Vineet Agarwal, ASSOCHAM SECTIONS Share Synopsis "Certain measures have to be taken. MSMEs need to be given some kind of a stimulus, maybe some additional direct benefit money." At all levels, MSMEs are the ones that are really getting hit across the board. There is definitely a need for some kind of stimulus for them, be that at any level. It has to be concentrated, it has to be focussed and it has to be a combination of both state and Centre, said ASSOCHAMat ET Now's India Development Debate. Edited excerpts:
"At the state level, lots of things need to be done. You need to make sure that the local taxes and fees are waived... If these are waived, as long as they have the lockdowns, it will help a lot."
MSMEs need focused stimulus: ASSOCHAM president SECTIONS Share Synopsis "Certain measures have to be taken. MSMEs need to be given some kind of a stimulus, maybe some additional direct benefit money." At all levels, MSMEs are the ones that are really getting hit across the board. There is definitely a need for some kind of stimulus for them, be that at any level. It has to be concentrated, it has to be focussed and it has to be a combination of both state and Centre, said ASSOCHAMat ET Now's India Development Debate. Edited excerpts: Give us a sense of how deep the distress is? Do you think ...