Congress leader Manmohan Singh on Sunday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that ramping up India’s vaccination programme was pertinent to tackle to coronavirus crisis.
“We must resist the temptation to look at the absolute numbers being vaccinated, and focus instead on the percentage of the population vaccinated,” the former prime minister said in a letter to Modi. “Currently, India has vaccinated only a small fraction of its population. I am certain that with the right policy design, we can do much better and very quickly.”
Nearly 12 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far in India, but only 1.15% of the population has been fully vaccinated so far, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
In his letter, Singh, who was the prime minister before the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, made five suggestions. He said that the government should publicise the orders placed before vaccine producers over the next six months. “If we want…