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NEW DELHI: A discussion has started within a section of the government over multiple ways to resume economic activity, particularly in manufacturing, in a limited way after the lockdown ends to enable businesses to pay salaries and meet operating costs and to ensure the economy does not fold up and go into a deep freeze.
While discussions are preliminary, and the outcome will depend on the coronavirus threat levels, there is loud thinking on allowing curtailed shifts with social distancing, allowing automated production like automobiles and putting in place a regimen of work passes and companies providing dedicated transport to their workers.
In case of automated production lines, it might be easier to commence operations given there are fewer number of hands on the floor and it is easier to observe social distancing. At the same time, it is essential to devise ways to get textiles and some of the other large employment generating sectors ru