Prime Minister Narendra Modi made two important announcements while addressing the country. Along with this, questions were also seen raising gestures and gestures on the questions of the states regarding vaccination. In this address, PM Modi announced that the central government will now provide free vaccines to the state governments for all the people above the age of 18 years of the country. In another important announcement, the PM told that the government has extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana till Diwali.
In such a situation, know 10 special things of PM Modi’s address to the country-
- Free Vaccine to the States: Prime Minister Modi said in his address that no state government in the country will have to spend anything on the vaccine. Till now crores of people of the country have got a free vaccine. Now people of 18 years of age will also join it. Only the Government of India will provide free vaccines to all the countrymen. Today it has been decided that the Government of India will also bear the responsibility of 25 percent of the work related to vaccination with the states. This arrangement will be implemented in the coming 2 weeks.
- Private hospitals will be able to take only service charge: Prime Minister Modi said that in these two weeks, the central and state governments together will make necessary preparations according to the new guidelines. 25 percent of the vaccine being made in the country, private sector hospitals can take it directly, this system will continue. Private hospitals will be able to charge a maximum service charge of Rs 150 for a single dose after the fixed price of the vaccine. The task of monitoring it will remain with the state governments.
- Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana till Diwali: PM said that today the government has decided that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana will now be carried forward till Diwali. In this time of pandemic, with every need of the poor, the government is standing as their partner. That is, by November, free food grains will be available in fixed quantity every month to more than 80 crore countrymen.
- Need to be cautious of rumors: Prime Minister Modi said that those who are creating apprehension about the vaccine, spreading rumors, they are playing a big game with the lives of innocent brothers and sisters. One needs to be careful with such rumors.
- It used to take decades to get the vaccine from abroad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during his address to the nation from 5 pm on Monday that if we look at the history of the last 50-60 years, it will be known that it will take decades for India to get the vaccine from abroad. Used to go Even when the vaccine work was completed abroad, the work of vaccination could not start in our country. The countrymen had waited for decades for polio vaccine, smallpox vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine.
- India is not second to any country: Prime Minister Modi said that bypassing every apprehension, India launched not one, but two Made in India vaccines within a year. Our country, scientists have shown that India is not behind big countries. Today when I am talking to you, more than 23 crore vaccine doses have been given in the country.
- Earlier 60% now 90% vaccine coverage: Prime Minister Modi said, in 2014, when the countrymen gave us the opportunity to serve, the coverage of vaccination in India was only around 60 percent. In our view this was a matter of concern. According to the speed at which India’s vaccination was going, it would have taken about 40 years for the country to achieve the target of 100% vaccination coverage. Now the vaccine coverage has gone up to 90 percent.
- We worry about children and the poor: Prime Minister Modi said, “We started Mission Indradhanush to solve this problem. We also increased the speed of vaccination and also increased the scope. We have introduced many new vaccines to protect children from many deadly diseases. We were also made a part of India’s vaccination campaign because we were concerned about the children of the country, we were concerned about the poor.
- Work done for medical oxygen on war footing: Prime Minister Modi said, “The demand for medical oxygen in India had increased unimaginably in the months of April and May during the second wave. Never in the history of India, such quantity of medical oxygen was needed. The need was not felt. To meet this need, work was done on a war footing. All the machinery of the government was engaged.
- This is the biggest tragedy that has come in the last hundred years: Prime Minister Modi said, “This is the biggest pandemic in the last hundred years, it is a tragedy. The modern world had not seen or experienced such a pandemic. Such a big global Our country has fought the pandemic together on many fronts.
