ABOUT THIS ISSUE India has more than 2,60,000 Gram INTRODUCTION

The various initiatives Panchayats to effectively fight the the COVID pandemic, the first undertaken by the Panchayats COVID pandemic, MoPR advised instalment of XV FC Basic (Untied) include IEC activities towards the States to enable Gram Panchayats Grants of FY 2021-22 to 25 States awareness creation, sanitization/ to utilise the Fourteenth Finance were also released in advance in the disinfecti. [...] They are central to the very preventive measures to curb the fact, the impact of the second wave spirit of decentralisation in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in of COVID-19 may have been country. [...] In fact, the misconceptions regarding the The PRIs representatives along with Panchayati Raj system is perhaps the vaccine’s side-effects clubbed with the frontline workers – the Auxiliary only way to promote social justice in the lack of proper infrastructure – all Nurse Midwife, Accredited Social line with the hopes and aspirations this has made vaccinating the rural Health Activist and Angan Wa. [...] process of delivering the vaccines as raising awareness of the local June 2022 southasiadisasters.net 7 communities about the nature of the facilitate quarantine, monitor sarpanches/mukhiyas to the level of infection and the preventive and symptoms at the level of the the Gram S. [...] A series of such even more critical in rural outreach benefits of developing and tapping trainings were then carried out from as the country is in the grip of the into the capacity of the community October 2020 to March 2021 to COVID-19 crisis.