2021 will not be about Covid despite second wave: Nirmala Sitharaman

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday assured industry that despite a raging second wave of infections, 2021 will not be about Covid-19, and the economic revival will continue.
 
Addressing members of the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Kolkata, Sitharaman said, “You will withstand this challenge also; 2019 was about liquidity, 2020 was about Covid, but 2021 shall not be about Covid, in spite of the second wave. I want to assure you.”
 
Citing the “cordial” relations between the Reserve Bank of India and the Centre, the FM said the central bank and the government have