Why no free vaccines, HC asks Centre
The Hindu
‘Can’t Centre use RBI dividend for free vaccination’
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday asked the Centre why it cannot use the surplus dividend it got from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for administering COVID vaccines free of cost to people, especially to the poor. The Bench made the oral observation when a writ petition challenging the Centre’s liberalised pricing and accelerated national COVID-19 vaccination strategy and other COVID vaccination-related cases came up for hearing. The Bench also asked the Centre what was the rationale behind its stance that the State should administer the vaccines free of cost to the people in the age group of 18 to 44 on its own, especially when the Centre did not supply the vaccines for this group free of cost. The court also reminded the Centre that it was not time to talk about federalism.
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