Pune rural admin to vaccinate 28k divyang beneficiaries

Piyush Bhusari / TNN / Updated: Jun 14, 2021, 08:44 IST

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In an ambitious drive, the Pune rural administration plans to vaccinate over 28,000 divyang beneficiaries across 13 talukas on Monday.

Pune rural admin to vaccinate 28k divyang beneficiaries

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PUNE: In an ambitious drive, the Pune rural administration plans to vaccinate over 28,000 divyang beneficiaries across 13 talukas on Monday.
Routine vaccination will be kept on hold on Monday, while the manpower will be diverted to vaccinate the beneficiaries, said Ayush Prasad, chief executive officer (CEO) of Pune Zilla Parishad.
Prasad said that the team aims to achieve vaccination of all divyang citizens in the district on Monday.

“We will deploy hired vehicles and ambulances to take the citizens to the nearest vaccination centre so as to make it convenient for the beneficiaries. All gram panchayats in the district have been asked to make arrangements for the same,” he said.
He added that they usually make such arrangements during the election period, when voters are transported to the polling centre via hired vehicles. An order by district collector Rajesh Deshmukh stated that transportation facility should be proved to divyang citizens by respective gram panchayats.

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Piyush Bhusari

Principal Correspondent with the Pune-based Times of India edition, Piyush writes on health, civic infrastructure, and power primarily among many other issues. Before coming back to Pune, he worked in Kolhapur for six years. He completed M Tech in Bioinformatics from Mumbai and found his passion in journalism with a Master's degree in Communication and Journalism from the University of Pune. Piyush participated in the Journalists in Residence fellowship program in Vienna, Austria in 2019 and is also a SET certificate holder. He is an avid traveler, trekker, and cinephile.

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