50 Page Nos. 50-55 PARADIGM SHIFT IN INDIA‟S EDUCATION AND HEALTH SECTOR DUE TO COVID-19 Dr. Deepti Sharma* Anmol Mehta** Bhargavi Singh Tanwar*** Pandemics and epidemics have always been challenging situation to manage by the mankind. After almost 100 years of Spanish Flu, COVID 19 virus struck the world. The Virus somehow has put everything on hold for certain period and the system managed to find ways to cope with such sudden uncertainty. The two major segments which got impacted deeply but simultaneously coped up well are the health care and education. The health sector is the one which worked day and night and helped the country to manage the unexpected scenario. On the other hand, education system came to a halt for a while but again took help of technology to make it working. This paper is aimed on exploring the impact of COVID-19 virus on India‟s education sector and health sector and the strategies adopted to carve the way out. Keywords: Pandemic, health awareness, Lockdown, Social Distancing, distance learning. Introduction: The world has stunned by the pandemic which has affected each and every sector of the economy. No economy has remained unaffected by this pandemic whether rich or poor, Developed, or underdeveloped. Many countries across the world declared lock down since March 2020 and the travel was curtailed. All the sectors have been affected by COVID 19 along with the education and healthcare sector. This pandemic has devastated and shaken even the best of the Heath care economies and put question mark on the virtual education system. It was the start of 2020 and reports came in that a novel virus has been found which transmits from one individual to another very quickly. This virus had normal symptoms like cold, cough, fever and it attacked respiratory tract of individuals. In India the first case was reported in Kerala. The virus was new and no dynamics of the virus were known to the doctors and doctors and the government were in a state of dilemma as to how to handle the situation. WHO guidelines came in and after that masks were made compulsory and PPE kits and masks for the medical staff were made compulsory. The administration knew that they did not have the proper infrastructure to handle the situation that they could foresee. In order to tackle the same a lockdown was imposed in India for 2.5 months approximately. The borders of all states were sealed and travel histories were tracked and accordingly self- quarantine centres were made. Provisions of epidemic diseases act 1897 have been evoked leading to temporary closure of educational institutes and commercial establishments, tourist visas were suspended and migration *Associate Professor, IIHMR University, Jaipur **Research Scholar, Manipal University Jaipur ***Research Scholar, Manipal University Jaipur