{"id":66206,"date":"2025-03-16T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/indias-covid-19-vaccination-drive-progresses-with-25-crore-doses-administered-aiming-for-herd-immunity\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T23:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:48:19","slug":"indias-covid-19-vaccination-drive-progresses-with-25-crore-doses-administered-aiming-for-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/indias-covid-19-vaccination-drive-progresses-with-25-crore-doses-administered-aiming-for-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;India&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccination drive progresses with 25 crore doses administered, aiming for herd immunity.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development for the Indian economy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a new stimulus package aimed at boosting growth and employment. The RBI Governor, Shaktikanta Das, revealed that the central bank will inject liquidity worth Rs 1 lakh crore into the financial system through multiple measures, including a special long-term repo operation. This move comes amidst the ongoing economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to provide much-needed support to businesses and individuals. The RBI also decided to maintain the repo rate at 4% and the reverse repo rate at 3.35%. Additionally, the central bank has revised its GDP growth forecast for the fiscal year 2021-22 to 9.5%, up from the previous projection of 9.2%. The RBI&#8217;s decision is expected to have a positive impact on various sectors of the economy, including manufacturing, services, and agriculture. Industry experts have welcomed the stimulus package as a step in the right direction towards economic recovery. The announcement has also been well-received by the stock market, with key indices recording gains following the news. Overall, the RBI&#8217;s latest measures are seen as a timely intervention to support the Indian economy in its path towards recovery and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development for the Indian economy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a new stimulus package aimed at boosting growth and employment. The RBI Governor, Shaktikanta Das, revealed that the central bank will inject liquidity worth Rs 1 lakh crore into the financial system through multiple measures, including a special long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119081532imgsize-536384.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}