Minister on Friday chaired a meeting with chiefs of the public sector and assessed their readiness to tackle any possible disruptions due to the Omicron variant.
The Minister also reviewed various measures taken by the government and RBI during the meeting with CMDs MDs in virtual mode, and also reviewed various measures taken by the government and RBI in order to implement pandemic-related measures.
FM Smt was present at the review meeting. It said that nsitharaman evaluated various steps taken by GoI and RBI in order to implement pandemic-related measures and readiness to tackle possible future disruptions that may occur due to the ongoing variants of the COVID 19 pandemic.
The ongoing third wave of the highly infectious Omicron variant has resulted in various domestic rating agencies lowering India's growth forecast for the current fiscal.
India Ratings and Research lowered its forecast to 9.3 per cent, from 9.4 per cent earlier in the day, while Brickwork Ratings revised its estimates to 8.5- 9 per cent from 10 per cent.
India reported 1,17, 100 new single day COVID 19 infections and 302 deaths on Friday. There have been 3,007 cases of the Omicron variant detected across 27 states, UTs so far.