How Covid second wave impacted India’s economy & the way forward

Published on May 22, 2021 09:00 am IST

The second wave of the Covid pandemic in India has been a major setback to an economy that was struggling to find its feet after the shock of the extended Covid induced lockdown in 2020. Several experts are now revising India’s growth rate and estimating it to be in the high single digits in 2021-2022. So when will India’s economy come back to normal and what are the steps the government could take to expedite the recovery? Hindustan Times’ Editor-In-Chief Sukumar Ranganathan explains the issue in detail in the latest edition of HT Insight.

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