National News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation at 5 pm on Monday. He said in his address that this is the biggest epidemic in the last hundred years, it is a tragedy. The modern world had neither seen nor experienced such an epidemic. With such a huge global pandemic, our country has fought on many fronts simultaneously, during the second wave, in the months of April and May, the demand for medical oxygen in India had increased unimaginably. Never in the history of India has the need for medical oxygen been felt in such quantity. To meet this need, work was done on a war footing. All the machinery of government engaged. If you look at the history of the last 50-60 years, you will know that it used to take decades for India to get the vaccine from abroad. Even when the vaccine work was completed abroad, the work of vaccination could not start in our country. Today, compared to the demand for vaccine in the whole world, the countries producing the vaccine and the companies making the vaccine are very less. Imagine that if we did not have a vaccine made in India now, what would have happened in a huge country like India today? 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. Due to the continuous efforts and hard work that the country has been doing for a long time, the supply of vaccine is going to increase even more in the coming days. Today 7 companies in the country are producing different types of vaccines. Trial of three more vaccines is also going on in the advanced stage. Why are the state governments not getting the relaxation of lockdown? Things like One Size Does Not Fit All were also said. Amidst the decreasing corona cases in the country, different suggestions started coming before the central government, different demands started being made. It was asked, why is the Government of India deciding everything? Why are the state governments not being given exemption? On the other hand someone said that why should the central government decide the age limit? Some voices have also arisen that why are the elderly being vaccinated earlier? Various pressures were also created, a section of the country's media also ran it in the form of a campaign. Meanwhile, many state governments again said that the work of vaccine should be de-centralized and left to the states. Various voices rose. For example, why were age groups created for vaccination? Starting from January 16 this year till the end of April, India's vaccination program ran mainly under the supervision of the central government. The country was moving ahead on the path of providing free vaccine to all. The citizens of the country, following the discipline, were getting the vaccine when it was their turn. 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. In these two weeks, the central and state governments will together make necessary preparations according to the new guidelines. From Monday, June 21, in every state of the country, for all citizens above the age of 18 years, the Government of India will provide free vaccine to the states. The Government of India itself will buy 75 percent of the total vaccine production from vaccine manufacturers and give it free to the state governments. No state government in the country will have to spend anything on the vaccine. Till now crores of people of the country have got free vaccine. Now people of the age of 18 years will also join it. The Government of India will provide free vaccine to all the countrymen. 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. Today the government has decided that the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana will now be extended till Deepawali. In this time of pandemic, the government is standing with every need of the poor, as their partner. . That is, by November, free food grains will be available to more than 80 crore countrymen every month. Those who are creating apprehensions about the vaccine, spreading rumors, they are very big with the lives of innocent brothers and sisters. are messing with. One needs to be careful with such rumours.
