Community Perception of COVID-19 and Local Response Mechanism in India

M. Singh
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This paper has conducted a literature review of the international scenario of the local governance and covid19 (including best practices) followed by an empirical examination of risk perception and state of local governance in the two most populous states in India (UP and Bihar) with a joint population of over 300 million. Plenty of work during COVID 19 suggests multiple problems, solutions and best local practices. However, very little is known about linkages between pandemic, its community perception and local response mechanism in high population countries having scarce resources. The result of logistic regression (N=2041) shows non-migrants and females perceive no risk of COVID despite having heard of Corona, showing a perception and behavioural issue that requires special local governing attention in such societies. Further, analysis reveals infection rate is high in the districts where complete elected council is not present and are only governed by chiefs of the villages. In such a deficient state of local governance, the COVID problem could be handled by community policing instead of totally relying on strict lockdown.
印度社区对COVID-19的认知和地方应对机制
本文对地方治理和2019冠状病毒病的国际情景(包括最佳做法)进行了文献综述,然后对印度人口最多的两个邦(北方邦和比哈尔邦)的风险认知和地方治理状况进行了实证研究,这两个邦的总人口超过3亿。2019冠状病毒病期间的大量工作提出了多种问题、解决方案和最佳当地做法。然而,在资源匮乏、人口众多的国家,人们对流行病、社区看法和当地应对机制之间的联系知之甚少。逻辑回归的结果(N=2041)显示,非移民和女性尽管听说过冠状病毒,但认为没有感染COVID的风险,这表明在这些社会中,这是一个需要地方政府特别关注的观念和行为问题。此外,分析显示,在没有完全选举委员会、只由村长管理的地区,感染率很高。在地方治理如此不足的情况下,新冠肺炎问题可以通过社区警务来解决,而不是完全依赖严格的封锁。
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