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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra and central governments about the steps taken to inform citizens about the procedure if they did not possess one of the seven identity cards prescribed for Covid-19 vaccination, reported PTI.
“What has the state and the Union [government] done to inform the public that the seven prescribed identity cards are not mandatory for vaccination?” it asked.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and GS Kulkarni was hearing a bunch of public interest litigations related to greater access of the vaccines, improved functioning of the CoWIN portal and other matters.
The pleas said that while the Centre had issued a standard operating procedure for vaccinating those who do not possess any of the seven IDs, the states and districts were responsible for identifying these beneficiaries. The court said that it was the responsibility of the authorities to ensure that everyone was vaccinated.
Besides, these standard operating procedures were not widely known, the petitioners submitted.
In a release on May 7, the Centre said that “District Task Forces” should be set up to identify citizens without the required IDs and that such data should be collated at the state-level.
The CoWIN platform will provide for special vaccination sessions for these…