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Govt's Rs 2 trn package will provide limited benefits: Subhash Chandra Garg

Garg added that government support is about Rs one and a half to a quarter to two trillion, which is relatively smaller than it should have been

Subhash Chandra Garg, former Finance secretary
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Subhash Chandra Garg said that we must help the migrant workers who have lost jobs due to Covid-19 crisis.

ANI New Delhi
The economic package announced by the Centre is above Rs 20 trillion but the immediate delivery or aid is quite limited and less than 10 per cent while its benefits will also be limited, said former Union Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg.

Speaking to ANI, Garg said, "There are three major aims of this economic package. First that the economic growth should come back on track, second to revive the businesses and third...a large number of people became jobless due to the lockdown. There are over 10 crore people who lost their jobs out of which many of them are migrants

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