{"id":115841,"date":"2021-07-01T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=115841"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:13:42","slug":"small-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/small-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"Small doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-blue\">\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GNQ8NJR28.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: The first relief package for the second COVID-19 wave falls short of expectations<\/p>\n<h5><span id=\"Major_highlights_of_recent_relief_package\"><strong>Few major highlights of relief package:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan guarantee scheme for COVID affected sectors<\/p>\n<p>Additional fund for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-extends-emergency-credit-line-guarantee-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extension of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana<\/a>\u00a0(PMGKAY) \u2013 Free food grains from May to November 2021 and Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana till 31st March 2022<\/p>\n<p>Financial support to more than 11,000 Registered Tourists\/ Guides\/ Travel and Tourism Stakeholders and Free one-month Tourist Visa to first 5 lakh tourists<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Advantages of relief measures:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Health projects in the hinterland<\/strong>: Additional spending to ramp up paediatric healthcare, with guarantees for \u20b950,000 crore low-interest loans for health projects, will improve health care facilities in the hinterland. It is also critical to cope with future pandemic waves.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Challenges with the relief measures:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Free visas<\/strong>: Free visas are a good idea, but are unlikely to gain results till India has a firmer grip on the pandemic by providing vaccines for all, including for those under 18.<\/li>\n<li>Weak demand is a bigger concern for the industry this year as high inflation. But the direct stimulus to demand is not enough for industries in the government relief measures.<\/li>\n<li>High fuel prices are not taken care of. If the government lowered the fuel process, then this would dampen inflation, empower RBI to lend greater support to grow, and leave a little more money in people\u2019s hands to spend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-unveils-%e2%82%b96-28-lakh-cr-stimulus-post-second-covid-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Govt. unveils Rs 6.28 lakh cr stimulus post-second COVID wave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/analysis-of-government-relief-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analysis of government relief package- Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Terms to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pradhan-mantri-garib-kalyan-anna-yojana-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana<\/a>\u00a0(PMGKAY)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-extends-emergency-credit-line-guarantee-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Hindu Synopsis: The first relief package for the second COVID-19 wave falls short of expectations Few major highlights of relief package: Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan guarantee scheme for COVID affected sectors Additional fund for\u00a0Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme Extension of\u00a0Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana\u00a0(PMGKAY) \u2013 Free food grains from May to November&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/small-doses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small doses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704861081},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}