Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the timely stimulus packages given by her government to every sector particularly in agriculture and industrial ones help the country’s economy keep moving during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We have given stimulus packages to agriculture sector directly alongside providing it to industrial and other sectors separately. We have given the stimulus packages to small, medium, big and garment industries separately. Such an initiative of giving the stimulus packages separately to every sector has made able to keep the country’s economy moving amid the Covid-19 pandemic,” she said.
The premier said this in an introductory speech while presiding over a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) from her official Ganabhaban residence here through a video conference.
Planning Minister M A Mannan also joined the virtual meeting from the Ganabhaban while other ministers and secretaries concerned attended it from city’s Sher-E-Bangla Nagar NEC conference room.
Sheikh Hasina, also chairperson of the ECNEC, said that they have taken timely initiatives to offset the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy and the livelihoods.
