SME Times News Bureau | 10 Jul, 2021
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that integrating technology
with inclusive service delivery would hold the key to accelerate the
pace of economic recovery during the time of pandemic.
Speaking
virtually in the session on policies for economic recovery at the second
day of the ongoing G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors
Meeting, Sitharaman also cited digitisation, climate action and
sustainable infrastructure as the three catalysts of economic recovery.
In
this regard, she also shared India's successful experience in
integrating technology with inclusive service delivery during the
pandemic. As an example, the finance minster also shared how CoWIN
application used by the country to register and vaccinate millions of
its population has efficiently supported scale and scope of country's
massive vaccination programme.
Sitharaman said that India has
made this platform freely available to all countries given the country's
firm belief that humanitarian needs outweigh commercial benefits.
The
third meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors is
scheduled on July 9 and 10, 2021, under the Italian G20 presidency. This
is the first in-person Finance Track meeting since February 2020.
