NEW DELHI: To minimise chances of Covid infection among students of municipal primary schools in his ward, Andrews Ganj area councillor Abhishek Dutt claimed to have launched a special initiative wherein details of parents were collected with the help of school teachers and arrangements were made for their vaccination for free.
Initially an attempt was made to collect information/details of vaccination percentage among parents when they came to collect ration kits, but it served a limited purpose.
Later a survey was conducted and parents were contacted to verify the actual number of people who had not been vaccinated.
Congress councillor Abhishek Dutt said that they took the drive seriously as “chances of children getting the infection easily during the third Covid wave was high.”
“We made a scheme with the help of teachers and school heads, under which we decided to cover parents of all primary school students in my ward. About two months back, when we distributed free ration kits to the children, a survey was carried out to identify the number of SDMC schools, total children and number of parents. In the survey, it was found that only 25% of the parents were vaccinated,” he said.
