Human nature to want to go home: Modi tells CMs in meeting

Chief ministers are likely to push for allowing economic activities to resume slowly, as the centre weighs a graded exit from the 54-day lockdown

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked chief ministers to stay alert and protect rural India during a video meeting to discuss a plan to manage the country after May 17, when a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus is scheduled to end after its second extension.

Modi said that his government’s efforts were for everyone to stay where they were in the coronavirus, but certain decisions had to be changed because it was “human nature” to want to go home, multiple media reports said. Home Minister Amit Shah made opening remarks at the meeting.