chandigarh coordinated financial response to future pandemics and resolving the debt crisis of the very poor countries will be on top of the agenda in the first international financial architecture working group meeting of g20 to be held on january 3031 in chandigarhaddressing mediapersons on sunday anu p mathai economic advisor in the union governments department of economic affairs said that these two issues will be priority areas for discussion and policy framework under the indian presidency of the g20 approximately 100 delegates from across the g20 membership invitee countries and international organizations will participate in the twoday meeting the joint group of health and finance will hold discussion as to how to improve the coordination between health and finance sectors so as to effectively respond to such health crises in future and prevent these mathai said stating that when the pandemic happened it hit the world at a scale that was unprecedented mathai said people realized that we didnt have a good system in place to meet the challenge we have good health and finance systems globally but how to make these work together so that we are prepared before a health crisis hits the world so it was decided that we will have joint meetings on health and finance in 2022 a dedicated pandemic fund was launched by the world bankthe meeting will be inaugurated by minister for agriculture and farmers welfare narendra singh tomar and minister for food processing industries pashupati kumar paras the discussions during the twoday meeting will be jointly steered by the ministry of finance and the reserve bank of india along with france and korea who are the cochairs of the international financial architecture working groupwhats on agendamaking international financial architecture fit for addressing global challenges of the 21st century like climate change and pandemics stability and cohesion of the international financial architectureways to provide maximum support to poor and vulnerable countries particularly debt relief countries will share their experiences on central bank digital currenciesroad aheadthe working group will meet again in march june and september to continue discussions on the priorities set under the indian presidencydiscussions from the international financial architecture working group meeting will be communicated to the g20 finance ministers and central bank governorsthe first meeting of the g20 finance ministers and central bank governors is scheduled to be held on february 2425 in bengaluru