GEC WRITHLON

Thursday, 16 April 2020

ARTICLE COMPETITION Thursday, April 16, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 Lockdown Challenges

Introduction:

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus.

The disease causes respiratory illeness (like the flu) with symptoms such as a cough,fever,and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing. Most people infected with the COVID-19 will experience mild tompoderate respiratory illeness and recover without recquiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like diabetes ,cancer are more likely to develop serious illeness.

Purpose of Lockdown

1.In Corona virus condition the main purpose of lockdown isto maintain social distancing which leads to stop spreading of coronavirus cases.

2. As coronavirus spreads from one person to another and that will create a chain of coronavirus cases so to break the chain is necessary as by which people may not enter or exit from that place and then chain will break.

Subjectivity:

Impact of lockdown on industries;

Lockdown main impact is specially on non-essentials goods and related to their business and others will not be in any loss.
Operations,sales new launches of project stop.
Stop in footfalls due to social distancing.
If we see as a global point of view , import and export is effected which led to like in prices even essential goods also.
Even in some point employer have sold to goods in less time due to export stop to others country.So due to decrease in demand ,prices to be reduced.

Lockdown is the good sign of reflecting in the environment. Due to lockdown,pollution is very less now due to very loss pollution in the market.
Due to lockdown ,in big cities of our country ,Nitrogen dioxide is decreased by 70% approx.
Due to lockdown many cities are reporting much better air quality.
Particulate matter 2.5 or PM 2.5 which is the most harmful air pollution, which is reduced due to lockdown.
Due to lockdown, not only air pollution is stopped but also other pollution are reduced like water pollution, noise pollution are also reduced.

Total cases

COUNTRIES	TOTAL CASES	RECOVERED	DEATHS
United states	1926235	36948	23644
Spain	170099	64727	17756
Italy	159516	35435	20465
France	136779	27718	14967
Maharastra	1957	217	160
Delhi	1452	30	28
Tamil Naidu	1104	58	11
Rajastan	749	21	3
Madhya Pradesh	517	44		33
Uttar Pradesh	504	49		5

Can you go to work?

Most major cities in the country have ordered private companies to let employees work from home.All offices will remain shut or work with minimal staff till the end of the lockdown period. The Cenral and state governments have announced relief pacakages for dailywage earners and other temporary workers.

What if you have an Emergency?

Emergency services, like hospitals and pharmaces, will continue to operate as usual.

CONCLUSION

As we conclude that lockdown has inversely proportional to economy and environment .

In easy language we can say that lockdown has positive effect on environment and negative effect on economy. Air quality is seen much better which is not observed in lost 10 years .But due to lockdown economy is getting worse due to stop in supply chain and its main impact is on non –essential goods and their services.

AUTHOR:

Sakshi Sharma

(49190312, MBA 1st year)

GEC WRITHLON 80

ARTICLE COMPETITION Thursday, April 16, 2020

ONLINE EDUCATION AND E LEARNING – A PRIORITY

ONLINE EDUCATION AND E LEARNING – A PRIORITY

I am sharing my thoughts which are developed in my mind during this 21 days lockdown. No doubt lockdown not only in our country whereas everywhere the planet because of the covid - 19 influence be a foul blessing for students, business men and for many other persons of the country.

If we glance closely this covid -19 encompasses great impact on the lifetime of students. No doubt the scholars whether the school or colleges are the supportive pillars of our country but due to this epidemic situation lifetime of every student get disturbed. Many exams are postpone. Teachers are not able to start new session only for the protection of young resources.

According to united nations 39 countries have closed school or colleges due to virus outbreak. This has led to more number of scholars being kept off from school to ensure social distancing and to cut the roots of the covid -19. India also had no choice but to enforce school lockdown to make ensure protection of one of our most precious young human resources.

We can keep the youngster away from school but not from their studies. Now the question arises how to make a way to make them available for his or her studies. Because of this outbreak there is no interaction between students and teachers. Now during this epidemic situation technology has come to the bottom as a boon. Every student was feeling bored then suddenly we got the news that process of online education will be start as soon as possible. This makes the every student enthusiastic.

As a ship is nothing without water, book is nothing without pages as like as student is nothing without education.

Before discussing the merits and demerits of e learning first we've to grasp the particular meaning of e learning.

There are myths about E learning that only instructional designers can make e learning courses.

One must have the knowledge of coding language for e learning.

But the particular meaning of e learning is : a learning system supported formalised teaching but with the assistance of electronic sources is understood as E learning.

Providing education become a challenge as there are approx 34 crore students in our country which js over the population of America. Process of e learning is started mostly in every school.

With the starting of e learning courses. Students are utilising their time in an exceedingly great way rather than wasting their time they're doing something new, something innovative, something creative. Now the scholars aren't getting time wasted. they're doing their work regularly. Especially this e learning become a boon for the scholars of sophistication 10th and sophistication 12th. per annum our new session start in April but this year we've to attend for the three months. So everyone was having same question within the mind that how we are going to complete our syllabus how we are going to promote to next class but e learning clears all our doubts

Due to this e learning those that use technology in a very worst way, for delay those students gets to understand the importance of technology. Study which is that the most precious diamond for any student goes continuously and smoothly through e learning app. As all the colleges are providing a correct plan for the scholars so thanks to this there's no disturbance within the normal schedule of the scholars. they're not getting lazy. they're keen in doing new new task daily. they're becoming innovative and artistic.

E learning not only help in studies of the studies rather this also helps in maintaining the scholar teacher relationship.

Yes lockdown includes impact on every field of the country..... But thanks to e learning not there is less impact on education relatively compared to earlier days of lockdown.

Students do studies and lots of various activities through many e learning apps.

At last i will be able to conclude with the very fact that technology isn't only having bad uses it should end in the betterment of society if we use technology in a very great way.

"Ghar me rehke padega india

Tabhi to badhega india "

AUTHOR:

Kanika Bajaj
(49190149, BBA 2nd sem)

GEC WRITHLON 1

ARTICLE COMPETITION Thursday, April 16, 2020

pollution and lockdown

India's Air Pollution Plummets in COVID-19 Lockdown

India is home to 21 of the world's 30 most contaminated urban areas, however as of late air contamination levels have begun to drop significantly as the second-most populated country bears the second seven day stretch of a 21-day lockdown in the midst of coronavirus fears.

While the total shutdown of India's economy was intended to stop the spread of COVID-19, it is having a subordinate medical advantage of eliminating any confusion air that a great many individuals were stifling on, as per CNN. As vehicles remain off the street, development is required to be postponed, and processing plants stop creation, the degrees of infinitesimal particulate issue, or PM 2.5, begin to drop.

"The facts demonstrate that contamination levels are going down and will keep on being lower because of lockdown," Pawan Gupta, senior researcher at the Earth Sciences of Universities Space Research Association at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, told Earther in an email.

Ongoing substantial rains in the north and west of the nation have additionally helped the nation's contamination levels, Gupta included. "Downpour is an extremely powerful airborne expulsion process from the environment and can cut down particulate issue esteems," he said.

Since the March 25 lockdown that constrained 1.3 billion Indians to remain at home, air quality in New Delhi, as a rule the most exceedingly awful on the planet, has dropped to "agreeable" levels. The lockdown request shut down workplaces, schools, cinemas, shopping centers, markets and "insignificant" specialist organizations. All methods of open vehicle, for example, metro trains, transports, between state trains and residential and global flights for non military personnel development have additionally been quit, as indicated by Quartz.

The impact of the lockdown has been sensational. In New Delhi, where flights have been redirected on the grounds that brown haze covered the air terminal, the air contamination levels have dropped 71 percent in only multi week. On March 20, the air had an undesirable 91 micrograms for every cubic meter of PM2.5. On March 27, only two or three days into the lockdown, that level tumbled to 26 micrograms for every cubic meter. Anything over 25 is viewed as dangerous, as per the World Health Organization, as CNN revealed.

"I have not seen such blue skies in Delhi for as far back as 10 years," said Jyoti Pande Lavakare, the prime supporter of Indian ecological association Care for Air, and writer of up and coming book Breathing Here is Injurious To Your Health, to CNN. "It is a silver coating regarding this horrendous emergency that we can step outside and relax."

Information from the Central Pollution Control Board of India's Environment Ministry additionally indicated a 71 percent decline in nitrogen dioxide levels. Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore have likewise recorded a drop in these air contaminations, as indicated by CNN. In Mumbai, the budgetary capital, air quality levels in March 2019 arrived at the midpoint of 153 broadcasting in real time Quality Index, which positions as unfortunate to inhale, as per Reuters. New Delhi arrived at the midpoint of 161 last March.

In any case, recall this is an impermanent respite that will return if industry and vehicular traffic return once the lockdown is finished.

AUTHOR

Ankit Verma

181921700513

ME 4th sen

GEC WRITHLON 2

ARTICLE COMPETITION Thursday, April 16, 2020

IMPACT OF LOCKDOWN ON ECONOMY

INTRODUCTION:-

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is that the shaping world health crisis of our time and therefore the greatest challenge we've moon-faced since war 2. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has unfold to every continent except Antarctic continent.

But COVID-19 isn't simply a health crisis however over that. By stressing each one of the countries it touches, it's the potential to make shattering and devastating social, economic and political crises which will leave deep scars.

Since the new coronavirus will unfold ignored therefore simply, several governments have felt the most effective thanks to guarantee individuals have negligible contact with one another is to order total lockdowns, with individuals solely being allowed to depart to induce food or drugs, and to follow social distancing once they do leave their homes.

PURPOSE:-

The purpose of this lockdown was terribly clear that to scale back the devastating effects of COVID-19 and unfold cases out over a extended time-frame to avoid overwhelming health system.

Some of the analyst state that the pandemic came at the foremost inappropriate time for India whose economy was showing signs of recovery when daring measures, it's currently aforementioned, the country once more might fall at the chance of low single-digit growth.
The fast unfold of COVID-19 has not solely hampered the worldwide economy however additionally triggered a partial closedown in several elements of India

SUBJECTIVITY:-

In associate degree economy already reeling beneath period of demand, rising state, and lowered industrial output, all of that happening along for a protracted amount currently, a supply-side constraint would provides a huge blow to the expansion prospects and social and economic well-being of an outsized variety of individuals.

At the instant, it's a supply-side downside. each production and distribution of non-essentials have come back to prevent. This affects a minimum of fifty fifth of the economy. it should even be larger because of previous lockdowns by varied state governments.

In the event of zero price addition, GDP growth for the primary quarter is probably going to be adversely affected and will even rolls right down to negative for sectors like touristry and trade. There would be outstanding disruption of offer chain and can take many months to be fixed. Estimates indicate that the primary 2 quarters of consecutive financial might observe a growth under 3-4%

In Indiat Up to fifty three of companies have shown a particular quantity of impact of shutdowns caused because of COVID-19 on operations. varied square measure cutting salaries and shedding staff.

· IMPACT ON MANUFACTURING:-

Major huge firms in India such as Larsen and Toubro, Aditya Birla cluster, Tata Motors and Thermax have briefly suspended or considerably born its varied operations in a very variety of producing facilities and factories across the country.

· IMPACT ON E-COMMERCE:-

Recently, Amazon which is that the biggest in e-commerce world and lots of alternative giants ,announced that it'd stop sale of non-essential things in India so it will specialise in essential wants. E-commerce firms additionally rummage around for legal clarity associated with what square measure "essentials".

· IMPACT ON STOCK MARKET:-

A deep adverse impact is recorded on stock exchange because of lockdown. Recently, stock markets in India post worst losses in history. SENSEX fell 4000 points and NSE NIFTY fell 1150 points.

TOWARDS SURVIVING THE ECONOMY:-

The manner within which India exits the lockdown can demonstrate however ready India is, the potency of the system, and its chance as a world different for the long run.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on weekday aforementioned the govt. was making ready a information package and therefore the same was awaiting many procedural clearances. the govt. has to this point requested India INC to play salaries on time throughout the lockdown.

JM monetary expects targeted measures for sectors like aviation, retail and tiny businesses within the returning days. there's additionally a case for tally to intervene to alleviate

It has self-addressed and created steps towards fixing a number of the problems associated with tax liabilities and indicated that a financial information is on the manner, a comprehensive one would be required to attenuate the economic prices

RELATED IMAGES OF LOCKDOWN ON ECONOMY:-

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· https://youtu.be/p6nKogn0c9Y

CONCLUSION:-

At last, I conclude my article by saying that, the choice to implement a complete lockdown wasn't a simple one because it is guaranteed to considerably disrupt economic activity across India however as PM Modi aforementioned that wherever there's life, there's hope and that i have firm believe that the govt. can take acceptable action to handle the economic issues.

AUTHOR:

MADHVI GARG

MBA 1ST YEAR

ROLL: 49190321

GEC WRITHLON 521

ARTICLE COMPETITION Thursday, April 16, 2020

CUSTOMER SERVICE IN LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

(Special Case During Covid-19 Pandemic)

INTRODUCTION

Customer service is the way logistics interfaces with marketing and as such represent the output of the firm’s entire logistics effort. The concept of customer service arrives when a customer demands any product and he demands when he feels need of it.

Tips to Outsource Customer Service and Making it Work

Customer Service is a process that provides value added benefits to the supply chain in a cost-effective manner. Customer service is a big challenge in today’s life and it literally means bringing customer back. The role of customer service is to provide time and place utility in the transfer of goods and services between buyer and seller. In this pandemic time it is very difficult to provide goods and services to the customers when there is no production. The goods are transported through supply chain to customers so that the time and place utility can be used properly. There is no value in the products and services until it is in the hands of consumer. The most important thing is that the consumer should like the product which is available to him because customer/consumer is the king of the market. If a person likes any product then he will promote our product by referring that product to others as well, simultaneously if a person does not like the product and get the product when another product has fulfilled his need then he will spread his negative reviews about that product in the market.

Main Phases of Customer Service

Companies are trying to acquire new customers by promoting their products in the market.
Companies are providing their products which were earlier stored in their warehouses.
Companies are trying to meet their customer requirement by providing goods to their footsteps.
Companies enhance the relationship between them and their customers so that their existing customers may get benefit from it.
Through customer service companies are trying to retain their profitable customers for life.
Through customer service, companies are able to build close cooperation and partnering relationships with their customers.
It involves the integration of marketing, sales, customer service, and the supply chain functions of the organization to achieve greater efficiencies and effectiveness in delivering customer value.

What Online Shoppers Want in Customer Service | NetSuite Blog

Practical Examples of some prominent companies:-

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Amazon is also providing goods and services to their customers so that their needs can be fulfilled and they may get food or grocery products for their smooth survival. Amazon also donates their huge funds in order to relief organizations as well as public. They increase their grocery capacity delivery from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market as quickly as possible. They also enhances cleaning in all their stores so that their stores would be able to work as disinfectant. They are focusing on high-priority items to ensure the fastest delivery of household staples, medical supplies and other high demand products coming into their fulfilment centres. They are also providing their products at reasonable prices and contribute to the environment during this crisis. They are also contributing to the environment by various ways like they are donating 8,200 laptops to the Seattle Public School Students who do not have access to any device at home. They are all also hiring 1,00,000 part time and full time employees and looking for talent in every community where they operate. They are also providing an option of ‘unattended delivery’ where the customers do not prefer to come in contact with others.
Grofers are also providing their services to their customers in such a difficult time. Grofers will give their customers transparency around stock levels. They provide stringent checks for safety on your order. They are stay committed to their most affordable prices even their goods are entirely stocked out situation. They are also taking various precautions in packaging and delivering. They are also implementing necessary precautions advised by World Health Organizations (WHO) on prevention of COVID-19. Now, their supplies are passing through different areas where crowd may not be found anywhere. They are also maintaining their supply chain in such a way that does not leads to anything related to offline footfall on stores. The delivery personnel are being monitored and their crates are washed and disinfected after every usage. As they are having fewer options of delivery so the customer should expect a few days of time from order to delivery. They are also avoiding the act of Cash on Delivery as it may be a source of transfer of virus from one person to another.

Lockdown cripples online delivery platforms, users helpless

7R’s of Customer Service

The Customer should get the right product whatever he has been demanded. If the customer has ordered some grocery then he/she must get that particular grocery.
The right product must be delivered to the right customer instead of any other person.
The customer should get the product at the right time which means the time that company said delivery would take place. But it is very difficult for them to deliver in such pandemic time so the company should take proper time.
The customer should get the product at the right place so that the satisfaction level of customers could be maintained.
The company should deliver the product in right condition which means product should be in right position free from any kind of damage.
The company should provide the product at right cost to the customers; they shouldn’t think to get benefit of any such pandemic.
The company should provide the product in right quantity so that the need of customers can be fulfilled in an effective and efficient manner.

Conclusion

It’s important for a logistics company to know the market, so the company can provide the correct level of convenience to customers. This enables the logistics manager to recognize customer service requirements and to attempt to fulfil those demands. In such a situation by segmenting the market, the logistics company can easily determine which customers will be most profitable, thus showing the company which customers should receive higher level of convenience. Thus, there is a need to cooperate with each other so that customer needs can be managed/maintained.

AUTHOR:

GINNIE KATHURIA

(49170104, BBA 6 SEMESTER)

GEC WRITHLON 213