Prime Minister Narendra Modi to interact with senior ministers on May 11

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with all the main ministers on Monday to discuss the next stage in the exit from all over the country emergency shutdown forced to contain novel coronavirus outbreak and various problems comprising the economy, officials said Sunday.

The Prime Minister’s Office took to Twitter to share information that it would hold the meeting by videoconference around 3 p.m.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold the fifth meeting by videoconference with the state’s prime ministers tomorrow afternoon (Monday) at 3 p.m.,” PMO India tweeted.

Sources said the objective of the meeting will be to further increase economic activities and address the pandemic in the containment areas, as the 3.0 closure will end on May 17.

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The announcement comes after the cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba chaired a meeting with the chief secretaries and secretaries of health of all states and territories of the Union (UT) to review their status of new coronavirus or COVID-19 administration.

As the top secretaries briefed Gauba on the situation in their states and also said that while protection from COVID is required, economic activities should also be intensified in a calibrated manner, the Prime Minister also wants to take stock of the situation at once. . individual discussion with the chief ministers of these states.

The blockade, imposed on March 25, was originally supposed to end on April 14. Then it was extended until May 3 and then again until May 17.

According to sources familiar with the matter, there will definitely be more concessions in terms of what is allowed, but there are likely to be no changes to Covid-19’s hotspots and containment zones.