CS seeks Central guidance on holding polls, vaccination simultaneously
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Chief Secretary Aditya Nath Das has written a letter to Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MH&FW), looking for his guidance in reaching the dual goals of COVID-19 vaccination and conduct of native physique elections within the wake of the Supreme Court judgement on Gram Panchayat (GP) elections.
Mr. Aditya Nath Das said that the federal government began vaccination of three.80 lakh frontline staff, of whom 1.49 lakh have been vaccinated up to now. The vaccine is to be administered to a different seven lakh frontline staff of the Revenue, Police and Municipal Administration Departments.
Meanwhile, the State Election Commission introduced elections to GPs, for which almost 5 lakh workers, together with personnel of Police, Panchayat Raj, Revenue and Education Departments, need to be deployed at round 1.35 lakh polling stations.
The identical frontline staff could be despatched to a number of places on election responsibility. Due to the logistical downside concerned on this huge deployment of manpower and their motion throughout the polls, the vaccination program could be disturbed.
Those given the primary dose of the vaccine won’t be out there on the identical location for the second dose. Apart from this, Mr. Das mentioned, AEFI (Adverse Effects Following Immunization) protocols have been to be applied, for which the individuals who took the vaccine need to be carefully monitored. Recipients of the vaccine ought to keep away from stress.
In spite of all these points, each GP elections and vaccination need to be undertaken as per the orders of the Supreme Court and the High Court. The Centre (MH&FW) ought to subsequently information the State on the highway forward to reaching the mentioned goals, the Chief Secretary requested.
