Congress veteran and former Finance Minister P Chidambaran is critical of the government for not implementing a nation-wide lockdown. “I was afraid that workers will migrate from cities to their villages and that is what has happened in the past few days. I hope we don’t pay too high a price on that account,” he said in an interview with The Telegraph.
“It will require astute economic management to, first, deal with the economic consequences of the crisis; and, second, to put the economy on the 5% to 6% growth path and further on a higher growth path. It will take two to three years,” he added.