GANDHINAGAR: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged officials in Ahmedabad district to carry out vaccination drive against coronavirus at a fast pace. Shah told them to achieve the target of administering the first dose of the vaccine to every eligible person by or before September 30.
Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Gujarat, chaired a meeting of District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) at the Ahmedabad District Collectorate.
Part of Shah’s Lok Sabha constituency, Gandhinagar, falls in the district. The meeting was attended by other local MPs, state ministers and senior officials.
“Shah reviewed the status of Covid vaccination in the district and urged officials to carry out the campaign at a fast pace and achieve the target of administering the first dose of vaccination to 100 per cent beneficiaries by September 30. For this, he directed that special camps be carried out in slums and other parts of the district where vaccination number is low,” said an official release.
Special camps would also be useful to provide benefits of schemes like Ayushman Bharat, Ujjwala Yojana, NFSA, Old Age Pension and Widow Assistance Scheme to the poorest of the poor, he said.
He added that the district can play a leading role in SVAMITVA scheme which provides integrated property validation solution for rural areas by operating a model project in 17 selected villages of Daskroi taluka.
