Modi Govt Got Arithmetic On Vaccines Utterly Wrong, Very Difficult to Fix the Mess Now:P Chidambaram May 11, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPuLHgpByVk
On the costs involved for vaccination, the former Finance Minister said it was not even a point of concern – Assuming a price of Rs 175 per dose, every individual could be vaccinated at a cost of Rs 350 per vaccine. In order to vaccinate a population of 100 crore, it would require Rs 35,000 crore. In fact he added that if additional money was required, the Finance Minister could approach the parliament and there would be no resistance in clearing additional funds.
Responding to the debate on compulsory licencing, Mr Chidambaram said there wasn’t even any need to invoke compulsory licencing, merely the threat of it would have made manufacturers amenable to voluntary licencing, that would have ramped up both supply and availability for India.
https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/central-government-covid-vaccine-price-supreme-court The rationale behind the new liberalised pricing policy for the COVID-19 vaccine is to ensure scaling up of vaccine coverage, incentivize vaccine manufacturers to rapidly scale up their production, and to attract new vaccine manufacturers, the Central government has told the Supreme Court.
Modi Leadership Style Main Reason for India's COVID Mishandling; He's a Megalomaniac—RamachandraGuha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVmsRmFE4Q
PM Manmohan Singh's letter to PM Modi here: https://theprint.in/india/few-indians...
Read Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's response to former PM Manmohan Singh's letter: https://theprint.in/politics/we-expect-youll-offer-same-advice-to-congress-vardhan-replies-to-manmohan-singhs-letter
'No Coherent Policy to Handle Pandemic; - N. Ram
https://youtu.be/PKH3ioEJ7r8?t=1671 on Pandemic
Harsh Vardhan spars with Manmohan Singh & Covid crisis forces Modi govt course correction
https://youtu.be/fD96yvnTpZQ?t=250
S Sukla 19th April 2021 - Its way of containing resultant mass alienation is to constantly keep fomenting paranoia and hatred. That's virtually its only card and also the trump card. Quite unfortunately, that appears to be effective. At least, as yet.
But, the second wave - with its stupendous and dizzyingly rising human cost, may, even then, eventually turn out to be a bit too much. Let's see and, in the meanwhile, keep doing whatever we can. Unless it changes rather sooner than later, it's doom for "India".
From: Mohammad Imran - State-owned vaccine manufacturers sit idle as India scours for jabs: Report While SII and Bharat Biotech, both private firms, struggle to meet India’s domestic requirement besides international obligations, the government is giving no job to seven public sector firms[image: State-owned vaccine manufacturers sit idle as India scours for jabs: Report]
Shocking as it may be, the Narendra Modi government did not consider any of its own institutes for manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines...These include the Central Research Institute (CRI) in Himachal Pradesh; BCG Vaccine Laboratory (BCGVL), Pasteur Institute of India (PII) and HLL Biotech in Tamil Nadu; Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation Limited, Uttar Pradesh; Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited, Maharashtra; and Human Biologicals Institute, Telangana. The state-of-the-art Integrated Vaccine Complex based in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu has also been lying idle since its inauguration in 2016, says the Down to earth report.
..Before the Covid-19 pandemic, India was the world leader in vaccine production. But presently, China and USA are manufacturing more Covid-19 vaccines than India.
For earlier documentation and Conversations on COVID, see http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/covid