CoWIN crucial to service delivery: FM
The Hindu
The CoWIN application was key to vaccination efforts.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said India would share the CoWIN platform with other nations for free, saying that humanitarian needs outweigh commercial benefits. On the second day of the ongoing G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, Ms. Sitharaman shared India’s successful experience in integrating technology with inclusive service delivery during the pandemic, the Finance Ministry said in a series of tweets. The CoWIN application was key to vaccination efforts. “FM Smt. @nsitharaman shared how #CoWIN application has efficiently supported scale and scope of our vaccination & #India has made this platform freely available to all countries given our firm belief that humanitarian needs outweigh commercial benefits,” a tweet said.
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