NEW DELHI: The government has focused on the health of citizens and ensured that no one was left wanting for food during the Covid-19 pandemic, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.
“We have gone through the entire three months without a single person starving. That’s not just the effort of the Centre or state governments. It is the effort of 130 crore Indians,” he said in his keynote address at the global online conference on ‘Covid 19: Jaan Bhi, Jahan Bhi’ organised by The School of Management of Bennett University, a part of the Times Group.
“If one was to research on how different nations responded to the Spanish Flu, 100 years ago, those that focused on lives and health of people… be it with limited resources at that point, progressed much faster and became prosperous. Those that only focused on their economies suffered,” he said.
We took care of our needs and of others’ too: Goyal
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