: The Political Fix: Will pressure from the Supreme Court and states prompt a Modi U-turn on vaccines? #IndiaNEWS Welcome to The Political Fix by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, a newsletter on Indian politics

The Political Fix: Will pressure from the Supreme Court and states prompt a Modi U-turn on vaccines? #IndiaNEWS
Welcome to The Political Fix by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, a newsletter on Indian politics and policy. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up here.India’s second Covid-19 wave is a huge story. Help our small team cover the big issues. Contribute to the Scroll Reporting Fund. The Big Story: Round aboutA month and a half ago, India’s Union Government introduced sudden changes to its vaccination policy that it said would liberalise and accelerate India’s campaign to inoculate all adults. At the time we called some of the moves baffling and talked about how they seemed like a panicked reaction to an unforeseen second wave. Over the last two weeks, a few more opinions on the policy have emerged. The Supreme Court of India concluded that the Centre’s decision to not provide free vaccination to Indians between the ages of 18 and 44 was “prima facie, arbitrary and irrational.???A number of chief ministers of various states have called for the Union Government to return to the earlier approach of it procuring all vaccines, instead of the fragmented approach it chose in the new policy. And the NITI Aayog, the Centre’s think tank, made it very clear that the Union Government knew how misguided some elements of the new strategy were, giving the impression – as I write here –...Read more

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