Covid-19 crisis: PM Modi says growth will return, more reforms in the works

He said the pandemic might have applied the brakes on the speed of the economic growth, but the country had left behind the phase of lockdown and entered the first phase of unlocking.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that India would return to high growth and promised that his government would undertake further reforms with the help of inputs provided by industry. India’s economic growth crashed to a 69-quarter low of 3.1 per cent in January-March 2019-20.
 
Modi urged industry to come up with studies on each sector of the economy. “We will together take up large structural reforms that will change the course of our country,” he said at the 125th annual general meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
 
He said the pandemic might have applied