INDIAN SOCIETY AND IMPACT OF COVID-19

A country is called a flourishing when it is economically sound. Economically sound refers to the education, health and employment opportunities of a country. The situation of the pandemic was observed by every country as well as the world. The pandemic revealed the mirror to the country how developed it is to face a situation like a pandemic. Every sector of India is badly affected by this. The whole economy collapsed and bore major losses regarding health, education and employment. The pandemic COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan China on December 31, 2019 then spread all over the world. In India the first case of coronavirus disease was reported on 30th Jan 2020 in Kerala State and death started due to COVID-19 from March 12, 2020. After that the Indian government took action and on 22nd March 2020 the first Janata curfew was announced by our Prime Minister. Later on, the first lockdown of the twenty one days was announced to control the situation. The situation was not under control because there was a panicked atmosphere. So ,the curfew was extended and it took the shape of a lockdown till 3 May 2020. This decision affected the many sectors of the economy. People were not mentally prepared to face this untimely lock down. There was terror among the people. The only method to face this situation was social distancing and awareness. As per the UNESCO report in India about 14 crore of primary and 13 crore of secondary students are affected by lockdown. The only and the only way to face the pandemic was to maintain social distance.Thus at the student level lockdown disturb the schedule of every student. As per the instruction of the government, school college sand universities were closed and the whole education system and society disturbed by pandemics. The objective of this paper is to analyze the positive as well as the negative effects on Indian society.