IAS officer Tarun Pithode pens a book ‘The battle against COVID’

‘THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID’ Diary of a bureaucrat written by 2009 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, Tarun Pithode  is the first book that encapsulates the experiences of so many bureaucrats who managed the COVID crisis. Pithode the then Collector of Bhopal has a pan India view of various disaster management approaches. It outlines managerial lessons for future bureaucrats and lakhs of aspirants. This book presents the way COVID pandemic was dealt initially when there was not much information and recent history of management of a pandemic of such proportions. It depicts the challenges faced by the people who were not seen yet who managed the crisis sitting behind and leading from the front. It chronicles the arrival of vaccine and second wave of COVID. It uniquely covers the multifarious aspects of the management of the pandemic and a peep into the unique efforts of innumerable people. The book is about the experiences of the author in dealing with the first wave of COVID pandemic and the experiences of various bureaucrats from across the country in dealing with COVID pandemic during the first and the second wave. The book further outlines the strategies employed for understanding the virus and containing the spread of the virus, and the role of institutes and hospitals. This book is an effort to weave the impressions of the pandemic, the outcomes and the profound lessons they took away as administrators and individuals. It will immensely enrich the students and aspirants for interviews and with disaster management strategies. And it will reflect to the common man about the hard work done by bureaucrats behind the scenes during the pandemic.