Lots of economic stimulus package given to help all segment of society and economy in general. Different experts have different view on it. Some are praising and some finding shortcomings . There is political affiliation also in individual expert or economist view point so one can not say if it is devoid of any bias or prejudice . If a layman reads two  divergent view reports he will get confused on which to believe as both from highly learned economist and expert .

I have tried to explain to the layman with a layman perspective .

Indian government has already deposited a huge chunk of money directly in the banks account of crores of poor still many find it quite less . Some Opposition leaders and even economists aligned with them advocating of more and more money to be given to poor .

Assuming we have 10 crore poor families in about 35-40 crore total families  Indian government  decides to put total of 100000 crore ( 1 lakh crore ) in the bank accounts of poor . How much to put in each account . lets say 10000 in each so that each of 10 crore poor will get 10000 each . how long this money will last ? 1 month , 2 month ? what after that ?. Will government again shell out another 100000 crore ( 1 lakh crore )? . Its getting into an unending cycle of transfer of money every month . With revenue growth already under stress  is it a viable solution ?. Yes its very bad time for poor and they need to be ensured of 3 time meal at least but it is bad time for revenue generators ( business ) in the economy as well . We need a balanced approach to fight present crisis .

Lets see this with an example . A family requires 10 litre of water in a day for drinking . for that they store it in a bucket of say 100 litre . If they just keep consuming this reserve will  be over by 10^th day . what will they do then ?. So if there is continuous consumption, simultaneously there has to be regular filling of bucket also . From where water will come to fill the bucket on daily basis ? It simply means there is another (3^rd ) much bigger storage with much larger capacity not only to fill 1 bucket but many buckets daily and not keep providing consumption requirement of 10 litre to one family but to many families . That BIG STORAGE is what we call ECONOMY .

Now lets understand Atmanirbhar . In simple layman words it is allocation of capital to all sectors of economy to boost consumption ( cater to demand ) , to boost production (cater to supply ) . Supply and demand are two end of same thread . Job and People are vital ingredient in this thread . In my view it’s a very holistics view with a balanced approach to get out of economic slump where people , money , job , livelihood , companies , industries all integrated together .

We need to make labour as productive asset ( providing job/self employment  and making them to earn ) and not a liability asset ( make them idle and just keep feeding them 3 times of food ) .China has made its huge population as productive asset and is a economic giant today and India has followed making population as liability asset (feeding them and not making every individual Atmanirbhar )   . So this is Atmanirbhar all about . Slowly every citizen has to become a productive asset and self reliant and make India a self reliant economy which develops a capability to withstand all economic shocks like USA , Japan and other developed countries .