Unexpected announcement by PM Modi about vaccine
On april 19, the new policy was announced, and it went into effect on May 1. Criticism has come from people who have previously collaborated with modi on economic and policy issues. Brown university has chastised Modi's new economics team on a variety of topics in recent years. Arvind Subramanian was hand-picked by modi as his chief economic advisor during his first term.
Advisory council members v Anantha Nageswaran and rahul Bajoria slammed the decision to split procurement between the central government and the states. They argue that the current three-tier pricing of vaccines has the potential to cause confusion, arbitrage, diversion, and leakage. In a blog post, Nageswaran asked: "friends involved on social media" to tweet the following. He left it up to them to "decide who to tag".One may also consider the views of a pro-government columnist and the editorial director of Swarajya. Rathin Roy, the Overseas Development Institute's Managing director (Research and Policy) had a much harsher reaction to the new policy.