Coronavirus: UP panel to suggest ways to boost economy during lockdown

Another committee to draw roadmap on harvest and procurement of potato and wheat; state police to book offender under NSA for hoarding and black marketing

Following the industrial and commercial lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus, the Uttar Pradesh government today formed a panel to suggest measures to steer the state’s economy through the difficult socioeconomic matrix.

The committee headed by the state additional chief secretary (ACS) has been constituted at the directive of chief minister Adityanath.

The panel would draft an action plan to support and strengthen the state’s economy in the backdrop of the tough economic costs of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown, UP ACS (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told the media in Lucknow this evening.

Besides, another committee of the principal secretaries of agriculture