New Delhi, May 17 (IANS): Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba is to hold a meeting with Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of all states on Sunday night through video conferencing, sources said.

It is expected that the meeting will be held at 9 p.m. after the announcement of new guidelines for the lockdown 4.0 which are expected to ease curbs in various sectors to bring back lives and the economy on track.

Home Secretaries and Health Secretaries of all states/Union Territories (UTs) are also expected to join the meeting to discuss the implementations of the new nationwide guidelines.

It is learnt that Principal Secretary to PM, P.K. Mishra, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and Health Secretary Preeti Sudan will also be present in the meeting to answer the questions of state officials in implementing the new guidelines. Gauba has taken several such meetings involving these state officials but this is the first time when the meeting is being held a few hours after the announcement of new lockdown guidelines.

In a similar meeting on May 10, the state Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries, Health of states/UTs through video link called for stepping up of economic activities in a calibrated manner considering theCovid-19 pandemic.

They shared with Gauba information on the situation during the lockdown 3.0 which is ending on Sunday. The lockdown, enforced on March 25, was to end on April 14. It was extended to May 3, and then again to May 17.