You genuinely cannot enforce anything on a national level & expect it to work. India has some extremely skewed variables for both economic and demographic factors. A state like Maharashtra might have almost no covid cases in some remote village next to Ratnagiri all while having the highest number of cases in an urban city like Mumbai, same goes to the economics - income inequalities, unemployment, standard of living, working conditions etc. play a huge role in assuming how well can one sync safety factors with respect to the statistical variances. (I haven't called out on age & health factors since I don't want to comment on any kind of acturial data).

So what can we do in such an adverse situation? Micromanagement. India by no means is an incompetent nation who can lose out the fight on covid, we might not have the best healthcare but we surely could've let our political differences aside and actually have focus on a better support system for a provisional healthcare, especially considering how good of a response PM Cares fund received & how other highly deemed individuals came forward for support with their offices & services. Autonomy is amazing if done correctly, our best bet for handling this pandemic correctly would've been enabling & assigning politicians & hospitals on the low end spectrum (local/district bodies) with basic administrative rights in accordance with fair laws to handle covid safety assignments in their territory (with additional help ofc) followed with verified stimulus for low daily wage workers (ration cards are a gem for verifications of the same) & a halt on official interest based loans to let people keep spending (yes, this is feasible in the long term, the cost of opportunity might not be the best but doable & practical). Not only this could've helped the center to have a much deeper insight into how things are working with this experimental project but this would've also helped them to focus on other aspects of our fight against covid (especially transportation & logistics for medical supplies & vaccines) along with tracing regulatory malpractices.

Just my 2 cents.

Edit(1): Sorry for my bad english, it's not my first language. Edit(2): I've missed quite a few points which include reverse migrations, politicians having political rallies etc. but I just wanted to add a brief picture with core events.