Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee and MLC K Harish Kumar demands transparency in vaccination drives held in the district.
Accused that the vaccination drive was carried out as the BJP political program, Kumar told the media on Thursday that the Corporator of Congress was not intimidated when the drive vaccination was planned in their neighborhood within the corporate corporate limit of Mangalore City.
“There are several examples of vaccination camps planned in the Congress Corporate Ward who canceled at the last minute.
Health officials asked the company to make arrangements for vaccination camps, but were canceled on the grounds of various reasons.
For example, vaccination drive planned in Bunder Ward was canceled after all arrangements were made .
The differences in this vaccination have been taken to the notification of the Deputy Commissioner, “Kumar said.
“Drive vaccination must be increased in Dakshina Kannada, because this district has the second highest Covid-19 case, next to Bengaluru Urban.
Only 14% of people in the age group 18 to 44 have received a vaccine dose in Dakshina Kannada.
While 42 % In the age group 45 to 60 has been fully inoculated, in the above-60 categories, only 57% have been fully vaccinated in this district.
At least 90% of the targeted population must be vaccinated before the third wave of Covid-19 hit the district, “he said.
He also accused that the labor department’s food kit intended for workers did not reach beneficiaries, because of the interference of BJP leaders.
Likewise, the KSRTC ICU on wheels and health checks approved by the government was also used for political mileage by BJP, he accused, and warned Congress would entrade protest against this difference in all the net in the district.
Former President Zilla Panchayat Mamata Gatti demanded that the subsidy scheme for charging LPG must be reintroduced for the benefit of the poor.
He sprayed the central government because of the increase in LPG prices, and demanded that petroleum products should be carried under PurView GST.