Covid-19 in India: Government structures in the Context of Pandemic Reality and the “Covid Apocalypse”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the main activities of the Indian government to counter the new coronavirus infection in the period from 01/30/2020 to 08/31/2021. There is an attempt to assess the activity of state structures and their readiness to apply and strengthen mobilization mechanisms. Under the mobilization mechanisms of the state, it is proposed to understand the ability and political will of state institutions to develop and initiate various management decisions, accumulate and increase critically important material and non-material resources to level an emergency situation of technogenic and/or natural plan threatens social development. The main topics of the article are devoted to such aspects as restrictive, punitive measures, as well as state support measures in the context of COVID-19, the specifics of organizing vaccination, the government’s anti-COVID information campaign, India’s “COVID Apocalypse” in 2021, socio-economic consequences and political lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for India. It is concluded that the situation with COVID-19 in India politically demonstrated the defining and decisive role of the coordinating institutions of the federal level. On the whole, the state bodies of India showed readiness for mobilization and showed their efficiency even in the conditions of a catastrophically developing situation, control over which was not completely lost, although there was a real threat of it.