View: India’s electoral infrastructure can be tweaked as a strategy for Covid vaccine delivery

There is no clarity yet of the numerical and geographical targeting the vaccination effort will entail.

Synopsis
For the movement of inventory (cold chain, in particular), we have the Amul model. Are there possible lessons the electoral model can provide in isolation, or as a supplement to these other options? The answer may lie in understanding the elements that go into the successful delivery of the electoral process.

The recent Bihar assembly election under Covid-19 conditions has won praise for the Election Commission (EC). However, what has gone largely unnoticed is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion of using EC’s model of delivering polls as a possible template for mass Covid-19 vaccination at an October 17 meeting to review the pandemic and preparedness for vaccine delivery. Is this realistically possible as a strategy and method of vaccine

Dharmendra Sharma

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Dec 7, 2020, 11:20 PM IST

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