Red Volunteers in West Bengal: Lessons for Public Leadership in a Pandemic

Pratip Chattopadhyay
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Pandemic COVID-19 has transformed our understanding of established notions of leadership and management for tackling emergency situations where the public themselves becomes the cause and bears the effect of it. This study on Red Volunteers in West Bengal provides a ready example of how public management can be created at the local level (neighbourhood/ para) to tackle the spread and veracity of a pandemic. The success of Red Volunteers lies on three pillars: (a) reflecting discontent with government initiatives due to corruption, nepotism and red-tapism, (b) presence of the youth which instils hope and confidence, and (c) factual happenings of service distribution at the ground level. The article concludes by arguing that the future public leadership for the pandemic must arise voluntarily taking into account its context and culture. The experience of a pandemic reflects that leadership must emerge from the society with a new grammar of management, namely, distributing services and goods tuned to sudden requirements of the public.
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西孟加拉邦的红色志愿者:流行病中公共领导的经验教训
COVID-19大流行改变了我们对应对紧急情况的既定领导和管理概念的理解,在紧急情况下,公众自己成为原因并承担后果。这项关于西孟加拉邦红色志愿者的研究提供了一个现成的例子,说明如何在地方一级(社区/ para)建立公共管理,以应对流行病的传播和准确性。红色志愿者的成功有三个支柱:(a)反映了对政府举措的不满,因为腐败、裙带关系和繁文缛节;(b)年轻人的存在,灌输了希望和信心;(c)基层服务分配的实际发生。文章最后指出,未来应对这一流行病的公共领导必须在考虑其背景和文化的情况下自愿产生。大流行的经验表明,必须从社会中产生具有新的管理语法的领导,即根据公众的突然需求分配服务和货物。
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