Himachal chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday said a staggered exit plan is required to bring back the normalcy in the State and to revive the economic activity simultaneously, taking care of monetary and food requirements of the vulnerable sections of the State.
Presiding over a meeting with the senior officers of the State here, the Chief Minister said after the enforcement of Nationwide lockdown for 21 days, Himachal Pradesh has also followed the protocol laid down to fight spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
He said that as per the threat of Covid-19 and cases found in Himachal Pradesh, the State would be divided into six zones viz. red zone, orange (4 zones) and green zone for the sake of drafting exit plan from Covid-19 lockdown.
Thakur said the exit plan would be prepared keeping in view health and economic variables. He said that capacity of the State’s health care system to guard public life, personnel discharging essential services and medical professionals against the epidemic during the days to come and capacity to build resilience against the diseases would be taken into consideration.
The Chief Minister said that similarly in economic front, effectiveness in preventing spread and impact of the current lockdown on State’s economy and its likely extension, its impact on poor and other vulnerable sections and fiscal capacity of the State to compensate the economically most vulnerable sections would be taken into consideration.
He said exist plan would be initiated only and only when there were initial flattening of infection curve followed by tapering of the curve with the tendency to reach a stage zero infection.