Jamshedpur gets Covid-19 dashboard

JAMSHEDPUR: XLRI-Xavier School of Management has extended its support to Jamshedpur district administration in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by developing a district’s real-time Covid-19 management dashboard, surveillance and monitoring of quarantined suspects.

“We are happy to facilitate the local administration in an emergency such as this. We have already implemented some of the tasks, and will roll out more in the coming days. We will continue to engage with the local administrations to assess how we can further contribute and make our efforts effective and meaningful. I would like to salute all professionals working tirelessly on the front line in containing the pandemic,” said Prof Giridhar Ramachandran, Assistant Professor (Marketing Area), XLRI Xavier School of Management, on Tuesday.

Recently, the East Singhbhum Covid-19 management dashboard was launched. It captures all the relevant data needed by the district administration for decision making. It also displays key metrics and charts to use and act upon.

Prof Ramchandran said the XLRI had also initiated work on building a Systems Dynamics Model for simulating the impact on the district’s health infrastructure.

“Prof Munish Thakur and Prof Alok Raj adapted a model built by MIT and worked extensively to show the impact of different scenarios of lockdown on when the hospital capacity would come under most strain and the model was shared with the Jharkhand health secretary,” he added.

A playbook cum checklist was also developed with the support of volunteers to be given to people in home quarantine. .

In addition, XLRI has been working closely with local authorities in building awareness to bring behavioural change, stress management and calmness of the mind.