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CII President ‘strongly’ recommends govt to consider another fiscal package to deal with COVID-19

27 May 2021 Evaluate

Amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, CII President Uday Kotak has ‘strongly’ recommended the government to consider another fiscal package to support the lower end of the society as well as small and medium businesses. He said the government could consider increasing the quantum of the credit guarantee scheme for providing collateral-free loans to small businesses from Rs 3 lakh crore to Rs 5 lakh crore. Last year, the government had announced the Rs 3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package.

Kotak said the COVID 2.0 has turned out to be ‘very very damaging’ and has shaken the country, particularly in April and May. On the impact of the second wave of the pandemic on the GDP, Kotak said the initial feedback suggests that it was adversely impacting the economy and also the growth. As against the initial expectations of 11 per cent growth in the current fiscal on a lower base of the previous fiscal, Kotak said ‘It would be fair to say that it is likely to be probably less... it is likely to be less than 10 per cent. We have to watch the situation’.

Amid this background, he said ‘I would strongly recommend to the government to consider a fiscal package to support the lower end of the society and small and medium businesses. That can be through direct transfers, including through food and other measures on the one hand, and second schemes to support SMEs could be in the form of an additional package under the ECLGS scheme, which they did last year’.

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