All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Wednesday demanded a Rs 5 lakh crore package from the central government to deal with COVID-19 outbreak, saying the Rs 15,000-crore package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a "meagre amount".
"AITUC demands of Rs 500,000 crore package from the Central Government to meet this calamity," an AITUC statement said.
"We at the AITUC while take the lockdown as necessary step as a preventive measure to stop the spread of Covid-19 infection, are extremely disappointed at very meagre amount of Rs 15000 crore allocated by the Prime Minister in his address to the nation on 24th March whereas for small state like Kerala announced Rs 20,000 crores package."
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