The Kargil war, whose anniversary was held last week with the defence minister and all service chiefs honouring those who sacrificed their lives at the war memorial in Drass, had brought to the fore serious shortcomings in India’s management of defence.
A brief snapshot was presented to the GOM highlighting the comparative position of India vis-a-vis other countries in similar stage of easing lockdown.
States have been asked to follow and further strengthen their contingency plans to combat COVID-19 on the basis of classification of the districts.
However, a GOM meeting was hosted by the Union Minister Rajnath Singh during which there was no decision taken on whether to end the lockdown on April 14 or to extend it.
The GoM includes Union Ministers for Finance, Environment, Agriculture, Mining, Commerce & Industries, Petroleum and Law, and is led by Home Minister Amit Shah.
He added another view was whether there should be an all-India levy and should it be confined only to some luxury and sin products or on all products.
