The package to benefit the poor and medical workers during the Coronavirus lockdown was called 'Prime Minister Gareeb Kalyan Yojana and totalled a whopping 1.70 lakh crores.
The world's largest democracy announced a total lockdown of 21 days starting midnight on 25 March, 2020 in a bid to curb the spread of Wuhan coronavirus.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that if the violators continue to defy the prohibitory orders during the lockdown, then his government will have no other option but to issue shoot at sight orders and call in the army.
Prime Minister Modi announced the national lockdown in his second address to the country regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic on the 24th of March.