Pandemic puts governance to a test in India
18 May 2020
Addressing the nation on May 12 — in the backdrop of a loud demand for economic stimulus, criticism of the handling of migrants and the growing impatience of the people with corona prohibitions — Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an economic recovery package of Rs twenty lakh crore, acknowledged the importance of rebuilding the economy bottom-up without relaxing on the aim of achieving global supremacy and reminded everybody that “self-control” should be the weapon of combat against the pandemic even when “Lockdown 4” — the name he gave to the phase beginning this week — granted all possible relaxations.