{"id":7728,"date":"2020-05-01T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:22:46","slug":"india-signs-loan-with-adb-to-support-indias-covid-19-immediate-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/india-signs-loan-with-adb-to-support-indias-covid-19-immediate-response\/","title":{"rendered":"India signs loan with ADB to support India\u2019s COVID-19 immediate response"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.nfapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/EWsUrpwX0AAXqvt.jpeg?resize=911%2C513&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"India Signs $1.5 Billion Loan With ADB To Support India's Covid-19 ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a $1.5 billion loan that will support the government\u2019s response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The signatories to the loan agreement for the ADB\u2019s COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme (CARES Programme).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It focusing on immediate priorities such as disease containment and prevention, as well as social protection for the poor and economically vulnerable sections of the society, especially women and disadvantaged groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Earlier, the ADB\u2019s Board of Directors approved the loan to provide budget support to the government to counter and mitigate the adverse health and socio-economic impact of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 COVID-19 containment plan to rapidly ramp up test-track-treatment capacity, and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Social protection for the poor, vulnerable, women, and disadvantaged groups to protect more than 800 million people over the next three months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}