Economic Growth Top Priority, Says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

COVID-19 is the worst health and economic crisis in last 100 years, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Saturday. "The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic is unambiguously the worst health and economic crisis in the last 100 years during peacetime with unprecedented negative consequences for output, jobs and well-being," he said, in conversation with Rajnish Kumar, chairman of the country's largest lender by assets, State Bank of India, through a video call at the 7th SBI Banking & Economics Conclave.