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REPORT NO. 229 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINTH REPORT ON MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RELATED ISSUES (Presented to the Chairman, Rajya Sabha on 21st December, 2020) (Forwarded to the Speaker, Lok Sabha on 21st December, 2020) (PRESENTED TO RAJYA SABHA ON …..………NOVEMBER, 2011) (LAID ON THE TABLE OF LOK SABHA ON ….…NOVEMBER, 2011) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi December, 2020/ Agrahayana , 1942 (Saka) Hindi version of this publication is also available C.S. (H.A.)-........... PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINTH REPORT MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RELATED ISSUES (Presented to the Chairman, Rajya Sabha 21st December, 2020) (Forwarded to the Speaker, Lok Sabha on 21st December, 2020) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi December, 2020/ Agrahayana, 1942 (Saka) C O N T E N T S 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (i) - (ii) 2. PREFACE (iii) 3. ACRONYMS (iv) - (viii) 4. REPORT 1 - 67 Chapter – I 1 - 3 INTRODUCTION Chapter – II 4 - 10 INDIA’S PREPAREDNESS TO TACKLE THE PANDEMIC Chapter - III 11 - 31 AUGMENTATION OF HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE Chapter-IV 32 - 48 SOCIAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC Chapter -V 49 - 63 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC Chapter-VI 64 - 67 REVISITING THE LEGISLATIONS AND KEY LESSONS LEARNT 5. OBSERVATIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE – 68 - 81 AT A GLANCE 6. *ANNEXURES 7. *RELEVANT MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE _____________________________________ *to be appended at the printing stage DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS (re-constituted w.e.f. 13th September, 2019) 1. Shri Anand Sharma - Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Shri S. R. Balasubramoniyan 3. Shri P. Bhattacharya 4. #Shri Dinesh Trivedi 5. Dr. Anil Jain 6. *Shri Neeraj Shekhar 7. Shri Satish Chandra Misra 8. Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh 9. Shri Rakesh Sinha 10. Shri Bhupender Yadav LOK SABHA 11. Shri Sanjay Bhatia 12. Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 13. Dr. (Shrimati) Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 14. Shri Dilip Ghosh 15. Shri Dulal Chandra Goswami 16. Shrimati Kirron Kher 17. Shri Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar 18. Shri Dayanidhi Maran 19. Shri Raja Amareshwara Naik 20. Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal 21. Shri Ranjeetsinha Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar 22. Shri Lalubhai Babubhai Patel 23. Shri R.K. Singh Patel 24. Shri Gajendra Singh Patel 25. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram 26. Shri Pothuganti Ramulu 27. Shrimati Sarmistha Sethi 28. Shri Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya) 29. Shri Ravneet Singh 30. Dr. Satya Pal Singh 31. Shrimati Geetha Viswanath Vanga SECRETARIAT Dr. P.P.K. Ramacharyulu, Secretary Shri Vimal Kumar, Joint Secretary Dr. (Smt.) Subhashree Panigrahi, Director Shri Ashwani Kumar, Additional Director Shri Pritam Kumar, Under Secretary Ms. Naina Gupta, Assistant Research Officer Shri Akshay Sharma, Assistant Committee Officer _______________________________________ * Shri Neeraj Shekhar, MP, Rajya Sabha nominated w.e.f. 4th February, 2020 to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Shri Shamsher Singh Manhas, MP, Rajya Sabha from Committee w.e.f. 31st January, 2020. # Shri Dinesh Trivedi nominated w.e.f. 22nd July, 2020 consequent upon the vacancy arose on the expiration of term of Shri Manish Gupta from the membership of Rajya Sabha on 2nd April, 2020. (i) DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS (re-constituted w.e.f. 13th September, 2020) 1. Shri Anand Sharma - Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Shri S. R. Balasubramoniyan 3. Shri P. Bhattacharya 4. Dr. Anil Jain 5. Shri Satish Chandra Misra 6. @Vacant 7. Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh 8. Shri Rakesh Sinha 9. Shri Dinesh Trivedi 10. Shri Bhupender Yadav LOK SABHA 11. Shri Sanjay Bhatia 12. Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 13. Dr. (Shrimati) Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 14. Shri Dilip Ghosh 15. Shri Dulal Chandra Goswami 16. Shrimati Kirron Kher 17. Shri Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar 18. Shri Dayanidhi Maran 19. Shri Raja Amareshwara Naik 20. Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal 21. Shri Ranjeetsingh Naik Nimbalkar 22. Shri Lalubhai Babubhai Patel 23. Shri Gajendra Singh Patel 24. Shri R.K. Singh Patel 25. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram 26. Shri Pothuganti Ramulu 27. Shrimati Sarmishta Sethi 28. Dr. Satya Pal Singh 29. Shri Rajveer Singh (Raju Bhaiya) 30. Shri Ravneet Singh 31. Shrimati Geetha Viswanath Vanga SECRETARIAT Dr. P.P.K. Ramacharyulu, Secretary Shri Vimal Kumar, Joint Secretary Dr. (Smt.) Subhashree Panigrahi, Director Shri Ashwani Kumar, Additional Director Shri Pritam Kumar, Under Secretary Shri Akshay Sharma, Assistant Committee Officer _______________________________________________________________________________________ @ Vacant on the expiration of term of Shri Neeraj Shekhar from the membership of Rajya Sabha on 25th November, 2020 (ii) PREFACE I, the Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, having been authorized by the Committee to submit the Report on its behalf, do hereby present this Two Hundred Twenth Ninth Report on 'Management of COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Issues’. 2. The Committee, in its meeting held on 15th July, 2020 decided to examine the subject 'Management of COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Issues’ and held three meetings, i.e., on 15th July, 2020, 19th August, 2020 and 27th August, 2020. In these meetings the Committee heard the views of the representatives of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Railways, ICMR, AIIMS, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Indian SME Forum, Laghu Udyog Bharti, Federation of Indian SME, Department of Financial Services, Reserve Bank of India, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Confederation of Indian Industries, National Sample Survey Office, Indian Statistical Institute and Government of NCT of Delhi. 3. The Committee, while making its observations/recommendations, has mainly relied upon the following documents:- (i) Background Notes furnished by the Departments/Ministries for various meetings; (ii) Presentations made by Home Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Department Of Financial Services, Department of Food and Public Distribution and other officials during various meetings of the Committee; (iii) Replies received from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Education, Department of Health Research, CII, TISS, IRDAI, CMIE and various other stakeholders and experts to the questionnaires on the subject sent by the Secretariat; and (v) Replies to the queries/comments/suggestions of the Members, raised during the Committee's meetings, as furnished by the Departments/Ministries and other stakeholders during various meetings of the Committee. (vi) Verbatim transcripts of the meeting of the Committee held on 15th July, 2020, 19th August, 2020 and 27th August, 2020. 4. The Committee considered the draft Report in its sitting held on 18th December, 2020 and adopted the same. 5. For the facility of reference and convenience, observations and recommendations of the Committee have been printed in bold letters in the body of the Report. For further convenience, abbreviations used in the report have been compiled in a table under the Acronyms section. Anand Sharma 18th December, 2020 Chairman New Delhi Department-related Parliamentary Agrahayana 27, 1942 (Saka) Standing Committee on Home Affairs (iii) ACRONYMS AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIFIs All India Financial Institutions AICTE All India Council of Technical Education AYUSH Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy AIDS Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome AFMS Armed Force Medical Service ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist BSL Bio Safety Level BC Business Correspondents BBIL Bharat Biotech International Ltd BoCW Building and other Construction Workers CII Confederation of Indian Industry CHAMPION Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing S the Output and National Strength CPs Commercial Papers CRS Cytokine Release Syndrome CMIE Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy CFR Case Fatality Ratio CBNAAT Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test CSIR Council of Scientific & Industrial Research CRR Cash Reserve Ratio COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease CDSCO Central Drug Standard Control Organisation CLCSS Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme CGTMSE Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises CSOs Civil Society Organisations CGTMSE Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises DCGI Drug Controller General of India DHR Department of Health Research DGHS Director General of Health Services DBT Department of Biotechnology DTH Direct to Home DAISY Digitally Accessible Information System DIKSHA Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing DRDE Defence Research Development Establishment DM Disaster Management DOPT Department of Personnel and Training DST Department of Science and Technology (iv) DNG Dadra and Nagar Haveli DAE Department of Atomic Energy DEA Department of Economic Affairs DFS Department of Financial Services DRDO Defence Research and Development Organisation DM Act Disaster Management Act EG Empowered Group EPF Employees' Provident Fund EPS Employee Pension Scheme ESDP Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Programme ECR Electronic Challans cum Returns