Creating awareness

 COVID-19: Origin and how it became a Pandemic    COVID-19 is an infection caused by the family of viruses known as Coronaviruses. Coronaviruses are known to cause infections in both humans and animals. Coronavirus infections range from common cold to severe respiratory or lung infection. COVID-19 is caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus strain. SARS-CoV2 was unknown before the outbreak that started in Wuhan, China in December 2019. On 11/03/2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a Pandemic. A pandemic is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. COVID-19 Infection COVID-19 infection is most commonly associated with symptoms like fever, dry cough and lethargy/ tiredness. Other symptoms include ache/pain, sore throat, nasal congestion, conjunctivitis, loss of taste or smell, headache , breathing difficulties and ...

 Panchayat Level: Each ward has a ward level team. At Panchayat level, this body is supervised by the Panchayat Monitoring Committee (LSG level monitoring committee), comprising of:- • Panchayat President • Medical Officer • ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) Supervisor • CDS Chairperson Each of these individuals are the direct supervisors of the 4 official members ward level team. Therefore, they do not sit in the Committee in their individual capacity but they sit as representatives of the system following the hierarchy. To support them, there is the • Village officer. The village officer has no hierarchical subordinate at a lower level than the panchayat. Village officer is part of the Revenue System. Therefore they have control over all the land, to collect taxes and enable transactions relating to land. • Police • KSEB Office • Water Authority • Education Department (Nodal officers of government schools) • Agriculture Officer. These are all independent bodies working a...

 Community Response Network (CRN 101) is a simple course designed to give a student a basic understanding of disaster management and how government systems work in general. Objective: The objective of CRN 101 course is to educate and create awareness about various government systems involved in the mitigation of disaster management. It covers a brief introduction to various government systems and how these systems coordinate together a Times of disasters.    The 3-Tier Panchayat System Rural Area The smallest unit within a Panchayat System is a ward. From each ward, an individual is elected by the people in the Panchayat through the Panchayat elections and is known as “Ward Member”. The ward members from various Wards report to a Panchayat Committee. The Panchayat committee also has appointed members along with the elected members. The Panchayat Committee has a President (Elected Member) and Secretary(government appointed member) and various standing committees (eg: Stand...