02006nam a22001577a 4500 516641 516641 210310b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Gupta, Shobha Kumari. 25747 Role of women in fighting covid-19 epidemic in Bihar: Astudy in the governmental and voluntary perspectives Bihar Journal of Public Administration 17(1), Jan-June, 2020: p.77-84 In view of the greater roles of women in fighting Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes an urgent imperative to analyse their roles in the garb of some modern concepts like voluntarism, social capital and empowerment. As such the paper examines their roles in implementing the policies to tackle the pandemic in two major perspectives – namely roles played as part of governmenntal agencies and secondly voluntarism. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of their roles reflect that women play significant roles in all spheres of tackling Covid-19 pandemic like prevention, protection, treatment and raising awareness of the pandemic among the masses. Women played profound roles in India in general and in Bihar in particular. In addition to women in government agencies, their voluntary efforts have also been commendable. The nature of the roles played by them reflect the maturity and self assertiveness in their participation to the implementation process. The present study finds the ingredients of voluntarism and social capital in their roles. Their roles through SHGs, voluntary development organisations and voluntarism at individual level indicate that Covid-19 has facilitated women’s empowerment in India in general and in Bihar in particular. The nature of their roles has been found to be free of socio-economic and cultural discriminations. – Reproduced Covid-19, Voluntarism, Social capital, Raising awareness, Roles, Bihar, India 23188 Bihar Journal of Public Administration COVID 19 (DISEASE) - SOCIAL ASPECTS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 390691 IIPA IIPA 2021-03-10 17(1), Jan-June, 2020: p.77-84 AR124486 2021-03-10 AR