A British Council study has found that the ongoing Durga Puja is a Rs.32,000 crore industry in West Bengal and accounts for 2.58 per cent of the State’s GDP!
– “Durga, Ravana, Santa Claus and the FM” in The Hindu – Business Line
The country is recovering from COVID-19 second wave slowly. It is not sufficient to relax all the pandemic preventive measures to restore normalcy in various production sectors. Consumption soaring has to take place through due stimulus in the economy. Faith indulgent consumption has to be avoided; instead the consumption has to be stimulated constructively.
For such constructive stimulus full fledged celebration of religious festival is antithesis. The hard earned income of the people must be deployed towards different production sectors so that cascading effect would cause growth and progress in the country’s economy.
