Budget 2022-23: CII seeks additional 1% CSR for Covid-19 boosters

The industry lobby group also said the Budget expected to focus on ways to strengthen economic recovery

With occupancy rate in hospitals remaining with­in manageable levels during the ongoing third wave of the pandemic, industry lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has urged state governments to lift restrictions on economic activities.

It has written to chief ministers to consider curbs at micro-containment zones only when hospitalisation rates are over 75 per cent and normal economic activities should continue until this level is breached in a micro zone. Apart from that, social activities, particularly mass gatherings for any social, sports, entertainment, recreation, among others, should be restricted to curtail spread of the Omicron variant.

“Hospitalization rates in the present