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02 COVER STORY

India’s 74th Independence Day

blow to the world. Originating
from Wuhan, China the
‘coronavirus’ pandemic has
already affected more than 1.2
crore people and claimed 5.45
lac lives world-wide. India also
has had to bear the brunt of
COVID-19 attack with affliction
of 7-8 lac cases and fatality
count of 21604 (till 9th
July’20).The successive
‘lockdown’ measures
implemented by the
Government, since March’
2020, to arrest the spread of
the pandemic saw the
economy taking a hit, with a
contraction observed in
national GDP. These were
really challenging times. Nation
was fighting a battle on two
fronts, one to follow the
lockdown measures to save the
lives of people from
contamination spread of
COVID-19 and on the other
hand dealing with the necessity
to save the economy from its
impending ruin. In absence of
any vaccine for treatment of the
‘Corona’ pandemic, India like
other countries of the world,
has had to do a balancing act
with both the ‘lockdown
Taking baby steps in 1947, the ‘Developed Nations’ of the measures’ and ‘ carrying on
India would have had traversed world. Being the world’s largest with the economic activity’ with
a long way on 15th democracy and faced with all possible precautions at the
August’2020 to celebrate its multitudes of problems, both same time.
74th year of Independence. internal and external, India has The ‘Corona’ pandemic has
With the gigantic strides made continued its growth story drastically changed every
in agricultural, socio-political, amidst global recessionary aspect of human life around the
health, educational, scientific & trends, playing a stabilizing role world, including India. From
technological areas, India has in the world economy. This regular domestic life to
transformed its stature among Indian growth story had educational, agricultural,
its peers, during these 74 unfolded till December’2019 industrial and socio-political
years, commanding respect when the catastrophe named lives of citizens have been
and recognitions from most of “COVID-19’ struck the deadly contd. page 3