Article with a grammatical error

Recently as I was reading an English daily, I came across an article (written by a doctor) which provided a smooth reading until I reached its penultimate paragraph.

Just one sentence was contained in that paragraph which read, "Perhaps the government's efforts to organise new gatherings is one such novel way of sustaining traditional practices."

The subject of the sentence is efforts which is a plural noun and which is erroneously matched with a singular verb is.

Hence, there is a need to amend the subject into a singular one to make the sentence grammatical: "Perhaps the government's effort to organise new gatherings is one such novel way of sustaining traditional practices."