Application of Blockchain technology in COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters

Abstract

COVID-19 Pandemic like disease emerging
suddenly in world not only gives health crisis but also
brings no work, no food, and no shelter like situations.
In an emergency way, Government may have to take
some action plans like lockdowns. This sudden
lockdown announcement makes people scare of
situations like starvation of food due to strict restriction
from Government for staying at home. Even if
Government has declared some relief measures in terms
of food, money and other benefits, many people are
missed in the count of getting any relief which leads
them to death due to hunger. As the people were
categorized in 2011 through last Census report a proper
calculation of below poverty line people in this 9 years
gap is somehow giving false estimation of poor people
due to which certain amount of people are not going into
any categorization. Blockchain an emerging distributed
technology may help in this situation in securing poor
people by giving a trusted identity management system
with proper categorization as well as a well organized
system of food and fund distribution by the Government.
By using Blockchain in association with Cryptography
can resolve the issue of any mismanagement or fraud in
the food and fund supply chain during such type of
epidemic cases in India. In this paper, we are going to
trace out and resolve some problems related to COVID-
19 like pandemics where not a single poor or needy
people will be excluded from the beneficiary list and
each misfortune poor who is suffering from food crisis
must not be a victim of mismanaged food and relief
supply chain management.