Aatmanirbhar Bharat Package 3.0

PIB News Update:State of Economy – Strong Recovery
• COVID active cases decline from over 10 lakh to 4.89 lakh active cases with Case Fatality
Rate (CFR) at 1.47 percent
• Composite Purchase Managers Index (PMI) rose to 58.9 in Oct vs. 54.6 last month, registering
strongest increase in output in close to nine years
• Energy consumption growth trended higher in October at 12% YoY
• GST collections for October grossed Rs 1.05 lakh crore – 10% YoY
• Daily railway freight tonnage grew by an average 20% YoY vs. 12% in the previous week.
• Bank credit YoY growth improved by 5.1% on 23rd October ’20.
• Markets at record high, record market capitalization, FPIs net investments +ve, Forex
Reserves – USD 560 billion
• FDI inflows Apr-August at USD 35.37 billion – 13 % rise YoY
• RBI predicts a strong likelihood of Indian economy returning to positive growth in Q3:2020-
21, ahead by a quarter of the earlier forecast.
• Prominent economists have suggested that the rebound is not only due to pent up demand,
but also strong economic growth.
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Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan 1.0 –
Progress on some key items (1/3)
One Nation – One Ration Card:
• Inter-State Portability: 28 States/UTs have been brought under the
national portability of ration cards with effect from September 1,
2020;
• Now covers 68.6 Crore beneficiaries who now have an option to lift
their food grains from any FPS of choice in any of these 28 States/UTs.
• Intra-State portability is also enabled in these 28 States/UTs, about
1.5 Crore monthly transactions.
PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbharNidhi (PM SVANidhi):
• 26.62 lakh loan applications received,
• 13.78 lakh loans totalling Rs 1373.33 cr sanctioned .
Work on Portal for migrant workers commenced.

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