PMC puts onus of getting frontline workers vaccinated with head of govt offices

The second phase of the drive to vaccinate frontline workers include the staff of civic bodies, police department, home guard and various security forces that are employees of PMC, central and state governments, among others.

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UNABLE TO reach its target for Covid-19 vaccination drive, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has now put the onus of getting frontline workers to take the jab on the respective head of departments of government offices that fall in the priority group category.

An official communique issued by the PMC Tuesday stated, “The government offices should make their staff take advantage of the vaccination drive and they should appoint a coordination officer for the purpose. The responsibility of getting their staff vaccinated would be on the head of the departments or offices.”

The second phase of the drive to vaccinate frontline workers include the staff of civic bodies, police department, home guard and various security forces that are employees of PMC, central and state governments, among others.

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The PMC also appealed to the head of various government offices in the city to get their staff vaccinated at the 26 booths set up by the civic body. The beneficiaries should be registered on the COWIN portal to avail the benefit of the drive, it said. The vaccination facility is available from Monday to Saturday, every week from 9 am to 5 pm.

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The PMC, which launched the vaccination drive on January 16, has till now administered the first dose of the vaccine only to 27,444 healthcare workers and 687 frontline workers. It had planned to administer the first dose of vaccine to all the registered 55,588 healthcare workers in four working days but has been able to cover only half of them, so far, due to alleged reluctance of the latter and technical problems in COWIN portal. In the second phase, which was rolled out seven days ago, the PMC had a target to cover 1,21,347 frontline workers.

Ajay Jadhav

Ajay Jadhav is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, Pune. He writes on Infrastructure, Politics, Civic issues, Sustainable Development and related stuff. He is a trekker and a sports enthusiast. Ajay has written research articles on the Conservancy staff that created a nationwide impact in framing policy to improve the condition of workers handling waste. Ajay has been consistently writing on politics and infrastructure. He brought to light the lack of basic infrastructure of school and hospital in the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde even as two private helipads were developed by the leader who mostly commutes from Mumbai to Satara in helicopter. Ajay has been reporting on sustainable development initiatives that protects the environment while ensuring infrastructure development. ... Read More

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