: Will the Modi government now do a U-turn on its 25% vaccine quota for the private sector? #IndiaNEWS Is yet another vaccine policy U-turn from the Indian government on its way? In April, as vaccination

Will the Modi government now do a U-turn on its 25% vaccine quota for the private sector? #IndiaNEWS
Is yet another vaccine policy U-turn from the Indian government on its way? In April, as vaccination centres around the country began to run out of doses and Covid-19 cases were beginning to spike, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government announced sudden, baffling changes to the country’s vaccine policy that it claimed would “liberalise and accelerate??? the process. By June, it was clear that the government had only added unnecessary complexity and inefficiency to India’s vaccination programme. It wasn’t helping. So it took a U-turn. Pressure from states and the Supreme Court forced the government to reverse course in June, though Modi attempted to portray this as an act of magnanimity. Even while rolling back this plan, however, the government only undid one portion of the “liberalised and accelerated??? policy – the part in which it had attempted to make the states responsible for procuring doses for India’s massive population between the ages of 18 and 45. The other unusual aspect of the April policy – reserving 25% of vaccines for private sector entities that could charge citizens for doses – was retained, with some changes. ‘Liberalised and accelerated’ Most other major nations have distributed Covid-19 vaccines for free. Where the private sector is involved in delivery, as in say the United States,...Read more

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