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Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions today released the National Preparedness Survey on COVID 19 – Responses of District Collectors and IAS Officers (2014-2018 batches).
The objectives of this preparedness survey are as follows:
- to develop a comparative analysis of COVID 19 preparedness across States;
- to highlight the main priorities and constraints of COVID 19 preparedness, as they are perceived by the civil servants working in the field;
- to access enabling factors in making institutional/ logistics/ hospital preparedness, etc.;
- to capture trends to identify systemic and process related deficiencies, in combating COVID 19 in the districts of India.
