Looking at the gravity and magnitude of COVID-19 pandemic, MHA constituted eleven empowered groups to ensure a planned and coordinated emergency response. This is an attempt to augment and synchronise efforts across various ministries.

EGs would identify problems and provide solutions for effective and time-bound implementation of emergency needs, policies and strategies. The concerned ministries will take immediate action to implement decisions and recommendations made by EGs which may seek guidance of Cabinet Secretary if they feel that any particular aspect is not within their domain.

Composition, role and responsibilities of EGs are as follows:

Medical Emergency Management Plan:

1. Dr V Paul, Member, NITI Aayog
2. Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept of Bio-Technology
3. Dr V Thiruppugazh, NDMA
4. Lav Agarwal (IAS:1994:AM), Joint Secretary (JS), Health
5. Dr Amandeep Garg (IAS), JS, Cabinet Secretariat
6. Rajender Kumar, Director, PMO

Availability of Hospitals, Isolation and Quarantine Facilities, Disease Survellaince and Testing & Critical Training:

1. C K Mishra, Secretary, Environment Forests and Climate Change
2. Vinod Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board
3. Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS
4. Dr Raman R Gangakhedka, Head, ECD, ICMR
5. Jivesh Nandan, Additional Secretary (AS), Defence
6. Rachna Shah, AS, Cabinet Secretariat
7. Vikas Sheel, JS, Health
8. Shrikhar Pardesh, JS, PMO
9. Mayur Maheshwari, Director, PMO

Ensuring availability of essential medical equipment such as PPE,  mask, gloves and ventilators, production, procurement, import & distribution:

1. P D Vaghela, Secretary, Pharmaceutical
2. Guruprasad Mohapatra, Secretary, DPIIT
3. Ravi Capoor, Secretary, Textiles
4. Dr G Sathish, Secretary, DRDO
5. M Ajith Kumar, Chairman, CBIC
6. Naveen Srivastava, JS, MEA
7. Anu Nagar, JS, Department of Human Resources
8. Mandeep Bhandari, JS, Health
9. Piyush Goel, JS, Home Affairs
10. A Giridhar, Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat
11. A K Sharma (AS, PMO)/Rohit Yadav (JS, PMO)

Augmenting Human Resources and Capacity Building:

1. Arun Panda , Secretary, MSME
2. R S Shukla, Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs
3. Dr Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Department of Aaayush
4. Arun Singhal, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health
5. Rakesh Kumar Vats, Secretary, NMC
6. Der Ravindran, EMR
7. Pankaj Aggarwal, JS, Cabinet Secretariat
8. V Sheshadri, JS, PMO

Facilitating Supply Chain and Logistics Management for availability of necessary items such as food and medicine:

1. P Parameshwaran Ayer, Secretary, Drinking Water & Sanitation
2. Rajender Singh, Member, NDMA
3. Ravikant, Secretary, Dept of Food & Public Distribution
4. Pawan Kumar Agarwal, Secretary, Consumer Affairs
5. N N Sinha, Secretary, Border Management
6. Ashok Pandey, Member, CBIC
7. N Sivasailam, Special Secretary, Logistics and Commerce
8. A V N Jha, JS (Air), Defence
9. Usha Padhi, JS, MoCA
10. Ashutosh Jindal, JS, Cabinet Secretariat
11. Tarun Bajaj, AS, PMO

Coordinating with private sector, NGOs and International organisations for response related activity:

1. Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog
2. Dr Vijay Raghawan, PSA
3. Kamal Kishor, Member, NDMA
4. Sandeep Mohan Bhatnagar, Member, CBIC
5. Anil Malik, AS, MHA
6. Tina Somi, DS, Cabinet Secretariat
7. Gopal Bagaley, JS, PMO/ Aishwarya Singh, DS, PMO

Economic and Welfare Measures:

1. Atanu Chakraborty, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)
2. T V Somanathan, Secretary, Department of Expenditure
3. Hiralal Samaria, Secretary, Labour & Employment
4. Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Rural development
5. Pankaj Jain, Additional Secretary, Department of Financial Services (DFS)
6. Amrapali Kata, DS, Cabinet Secretariat
7. Arvind Srivastava, JS/ Kavitha Padmanabhan, Director, PMO

Information Communication and Public Awareness:

1. Ravi Mittal, Secretary, I&B
2. Sunil Kumar, Secretary, Panchayati Raj
3. Syed Ata Hasnain, Member, NDMA
4. Punya Salila Srivastava, JS, Home Affairs
5. Padmaja Singh, JS, Health & Family Welfare
6. Sandeep Sarkar, JS, Cabinet Secretariat
7. Gopal Baglay, JS, PMO/ Hiren Joshi, OSD, PMO/ Pratik Mathur, DS PMO

Technology and Data Management:

1. Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, MEITY
2. Anshu Prakash, Secretary, TelecomG S Tuteja, ADG, ICMR
3. N Yiuvaraj, Duputy Secretary, Health & Family Welfare
4. Bharat H Khera, JS, Cabinet Secretariat
5. Pratik Doshi, OSD, PMO/ Manhar Sinh Yadav, DS/ Hardik Shah, DS, PMO 

Public Grievances and suggestions:

1. Amit Khare, Secretary, Human Resource Development
2. K Shivaji, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG)
3. Ashutosh Agnihotri, Joint Secretary, Home Affairs
4. Meera Mohanty, Director, Cabinet Secretariat
5. Saurabh Shukla, Director, PMO/ Abhishek Shukla, Deputy Secretary, PMO

Strategic Issues relating to lockdown:

1. Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Secretary, Home Affairs
2. Dr V Paul, Memer, NITI Aayog
3. V P Joy, Secretary (Coordination) Cabinet Secretariat
4. A K Sharma, Additional Secretary, PMO/ Arvind Srivastava, JS, PMO/Abhishek Shukla, DS, PMO