Allocation of ₹20 Lakhs Crores Relief Package from GOI 2020

 

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Current Affairs:

On 12th May 2020, the PM of India had announced ₹20 Lakhs Crores special economic package to fight against this rescission and the pandemic and later in 5 consecutive days the finance minister of India Mrs.Nirmala Sitaraman put out the details and allocation of the special economic package for COVID-19 relief in India. A common citizen of India will think that the special economic package is the amount where the government of India is going to spend on its citizen's welfare directly from its pocket but the reality is different and the government wouldn't transfer funds directly into a poor bank account, and this time the government of India provides relief package in the form of loans, credit and guarantee to banks to bear the risk. If you want to understand this more clearly then you must the type of policies in economics like monetary policy and fiscal policy, wherein Monetary policy: the central of India i,e. RBI will increase or decrease the interest rate to the commercial bank for providing loans to the public and it is called a bank rate in which it will charge low-interest rates to the public so that the demand will increase in the economy and thereby the growth. RBI will change the bank rates according to the current situation in the economy, for example, a few months the price of vegetable has gone hype, and the RBI reduces the bank rate so that a layman can get loans at cheaper interest rates which results in increasing demand in the economy which automatically reduces the price of vegetables. RBI will make changes autonomously. Fiscal Policy: are those policies introduced by the government of India where it does change in its spending and changes in tax rates etc. These types of changes made through a carbonate meeting of each and every ministry of India. Suggested Read: Israeli Scientists Developed Monoclonal Antibody for COVID-19 Patients

Allocation of ₹20 Lakhs Crores 2020

1. First of all the government of India has not declared ₹20 Lakhs Crores Relief Package, in fact, it includes the monetary package of ₹8 Lakhs Crores released by RBI to the economy due to the rescission situation in the country which not fair to include the monetary package as a special economic package and every other country count only fiscal policies announced the government as a COVID-19 relief package. This ₹8 Lakhs Crore is reserve maintained by the RBI for a long time which now being used to reduce the bank rates and make this funds flow in the economy through loans and credits.
2. The Indian government also includes the old relief package of ₹1,92,000 crores announced at the beginning of the lockdown in India which is also a method used by the government to make people believe that the government has announced ₹20 Lakhs Crore to help the people.
3. The government of India has put out ₹3 Lakhs Crores for MSMEs as a collateral-free automatic loan which helps the MSMEs sector in India to fight against this global rescission and the main thing here is the package is in the form of a loan.
4. The power companies in India are going to provided with ₹90,000 crores, again in the form of loan and credit or loan guarantee or like surety and it is expected the power companies will pass on these benefits to others.
5. Indian formers are going to provided with ₹2 lakh crores as a concessional loan and not in the direct transfer.
6. Street vendors to get ₹5000 crores as credit
7. Migrant workers are going to get free food grains for the next 2 months and also launch 'one nation one ration' scheme by march 2021 worth ₹3500 crores which will directly benefit 8 crore, migrant workers, in India. The government also ensures that the migrant worker will get jobs under the MGNREGA scheme.
8. EPF rate reduction from 12% to 10%
9. Reductions in TDS

Here in the above allocation of ₹20 lakh crore, about 90% of this package is in the form of loans and guarantee and only about 10% that is ₹2 lakh crore is used to help the people who are in need and some of the funds go to viability gap project like ruler road construction which is necessary. In this special economic package, there are only negligible benefits to a common man in India and top of it the government started privatizing defense manufacturing, power distribution, coal sector and space exploration which can't judge on now and it is only considered after it gets the proper implementation of profitable companies to these sectors.

Conclusion:

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