Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 campaign- Boosting COVID-19 Vaccination

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Har Ghar Dastak Campaign- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges- Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to: Health; Education; Human Resources.

Recently, “Har Ghar Dastak campaign 2.0” was commenced to accelerate the pace and coverage of COVID19 vaccination across States and UTs.
Under “Har Ghar Dastak campaign 2.0”, being implemented in a ‘Mission Mode’, States and UTs have been advised to give an intensive push towards full COVID19 vaccination coverage by vaccinating all eligible beneficiaries.

About: Incorporating the experience & learning from “HarGharDastak campaign”, HarGharDastak 2.0’ will be implemented from 1st June 2022 to 31st July 2022.
Objective: The objective of the ‘Har GharDastak2.0’ Abhiyan is to vaccinate and cover the eligible population groups for first, second and precaution doses through door-to-door campaigns.
Focus Groups under Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 Campaign: Major focus will also remain on-
- Improving sub-optimal coverage of persons aged ≥ 60years with precaution dose, a
- Along with considerably slower speed of coverage in the 12-14 years’ cohort.
Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 Campaign aims to achieve covid vaccination by focusing on old age homes, schools/colleges including the out-of-school children (for focussed coverage of children aged 12-18 years’ population), prisons, brick kilns, etc.
Role of States/UTs: They have been urged to undertake effective monitoring with respective micro-plans based on due-lists of all eligible beneficiaries.
- They were also urged to review administration of precaution dose to 18-59 years’ age-group with the private hospitals on a regular basis.
COVID-19 Vaccination: So far, 193.57 Cr doses have been administered across the country.
- 3% of all persons above 15 years of age have received at least one dose and 86.3% have received both the doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

About: “HarGharDastak campaign” was launched in Nov 2021 to promote covid-19 vaccination and protect individual citizens of India.
The ‘HarGharDastak’ Teekakaran Abhiyaan has been inspired by the successful strategy of Mission Indradhanush.
- Mission Indradhanush included mobilization, awareness & vaccination activities for reaching out to all the missed out and dropped out eligible beneficiaries of 1st & 2nd dose through House-to-House visit from 3rd Nov 2021 onwards.
Significance: The HarGharDastak’ initiative contributed immensely towards the success of the programme by reaching out to the last mile beneficiaries including the old-aged, differently-abled and even the vaccine hesitant populations.