Bharat towards Atmanirbharta: a Twitter Based Analysis Using Nvivo

Sharma, R.; Gupta, S.

Background It's been over a year now and Covid-19 is still among us and most of the countries are still in fight against Covid-19. Lockdown was the only possible solution but the impact of lockdowns on economies was devastated. Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) a Covid-19 pandemic economic package of twenty lakh crore rupees was announced by Indian central government on the 12th of May, 2020. The package was released to make the country independent and to primarily empower the poor, labourers, and migrants who were adversely affected by Covid-19. Research Methodology The research paper is of qualitative type and the research methodology has two parts- in the first, the literature has been reviewed regarding the impact of Covid-19 on various sectors globally and in the second part- extracted tweets has been analysed using NVivo and the main parameters- themes, sentiment, word map and word cloud are noted down. Findings The paper extracted various themes under the Atmanirbhar Bharat and the top five themes are related to defence and products. Majority of the tweets are on the positive side as shown by the sentiment analysis. The majority of tweets are from Asia as shown by the word map. Conclusion Lack of beds in hospitals, lack of oxygen supply, and lack of basic facilities for Covid-19 patients have debunk the health system. Though the government made the announcement related to the Atmanirbharbharat very easily, it is going to be very difficult to make it accessible for the common man. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.