New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a note of caution and asked people to guard against complacency. A day before further easing of the lockdown, with significant curbs restricted to containment zones, he emphasized the need to maintain social distancing, use masks and practice good hygiene.

He refers to the plan for full resumption of train and domestic air travel and re-opening of a substantial chuck of the economy. Much has resumed, Shramik special trains are operational, and other special trains too have begun. With utmost precautions, flights have resumed, industry is to returning to normalcy, thus opening up a major segment of the economy.

In such scenario, we need to be even more alert and careful, he said. They should be no laxity on our part in a complete adherence said PM in his monthly radio program “Man Ki Baat”. Asking for continuing adherence to distancing and hygiene norms so that the gains from the lockdown are not lost, said the PM relaxation of restrictions did not mean that the fear of the pandemic was over. Citizen should be aware that they and their families continue to be at risk from the highly infectious disease about which little is known, he added.

PM in his address in “Man Ki Baat” focusing on the sufferings of migrant workers and the backwardness of eastern-India, from where most migrate to other parts. The poor and workers were hurt the most due to the pandemic. Their agony, their pain, their ordeal cannot be expressed in words. He also said all of us are trying to share their distress, the torment; the entire country is doing that.

He said that the eastern region needs development, referring to eastern-up, Bihar and West Bengal, where maximum migrants returned.