Home, DPIIT secretaries talk to industry associations for speeding up economic activity: MHA

Measures to "speed up" economic and industrial activities were reviewed on Thursday by a high-level group of officials comprising the Union home secretary and his counterpart in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), a senior official said.

A video conference was held between representatives of industry associations and the two senior bureaucrats so that those industrial activities, which are permitted during the ongoing lockdown period, keep functioning smoothly and economic activities speed up, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of home Affairs (MHA) Punya Salila Srivastava told reporters here.

Feedback is being taken from industrial units and their problems are being addressed, she said during a daily press briefing on measures related to the lockdown clamped in the country to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

"In this context, home secretary (Ajay Bhalla) and secretary DPIIT (Guruprasad Mohapatra) have talked to industry associations via video conferencing today," Srivastava said.

The DPIIT, which is a department under the commerce ministry, in a tweet said that the conference with industry associations was "to facilitate permits for industrial activities in order to boost economic activities."