: COVID-19 fight: â€˜larger forceâ€™ may replace frontline workers #IndiaNEWS #National News New Delhi: Asserting that India faces a significantly higher threat from COVID-19 pandemic, the government

COVID-19 fight: â€˜larger forceâ€™ may replace frontline workers #IndiaNEWS #National News
New Delhi: Asserting that India faces a significantly higher threat from COVID-19 pandemic, the government has decided to create a â€œlarger forceâ€? to replace frontline workers engaged in various works to tackle the pandemic and its exponential increase.

These workers will be provided necessary training online.

â€œ As all are aware, India faces a significantly higher
threat from COVID-19 pandemic. It will be pertinent to take note of the fact
that Indiaâ€™s first line of workers is already engaged in COVID relief and doing
commendable job.

â€œHowever, a larger force will be needed to replace the
first line and to tackle the exponential or geometric increase in positive
COVID-19 cases in the subsequent stages of the pandemic,â€? according to a
personnel ministry order.

The order, however, did not elaborate in what context the
country was facing higher threat.

Accordingly, to take care of the training needs of the
frontline workers, the launch of the integrated government online training
(iGOT) platform has been fast-forwarded, and a version of iGOT fitted to these
needs has been launched, it said.

â€œThe platform will provide the training modules on
flexitime and on site basis so that the COVID response can be delivered at
scale for the workforce needed to tackle the pandemic,â€? said the order.

The courses on iGOT, it said, have been launched for
doctors, nurses, paramedics, hygiene workers, technicians, auxiliary nursing
midwives (ANMs), state government officers and civil defence officials, among
others.

The online training modules are also available for
various police organisations, National Cadet Corps, Nehru Yuva Kendra
Sangathan, National Service Scheme, Indian Red Cross Society, Bharat Scouts and
Guides and other volunteers at this stage, said the order, which was issued to
all central government departments and state governments.

They have been asked to encourage more and more members
of the organisations concerned to onboard the iGOT platform and undergo online
training so that the pandemic may be handled efficiently, the order said.
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