NSE Foundation, a Section 8 subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India Limited in partnership with the NITI Aayog and UNICEF has launched a programme to spread awareness on COVID-19 vaccination in India. This programme will bring together the efforts of ground level partners and the local district administration to facilitate increased vaccination in remote ‘aspirational’ districts of India which include Nandurbar and Osmanabad in Maharashtra, Karauli in Rajasthan, Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu and Kiphire in Nagaland.
Dr Vinod K. Paul, Member of NITI Aayog, Chair of the Empowered Group on Medical Infrastructure and Covid Management Plan, National Task Force on Covid-19 (ICMR), and the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) launched Project CAVACH in the presence of District Collectors and NSE Officials.The project — CAVACH (COVID-19 and Vaccination Assistance Campaign for Health — unites more than 30 community-based organisations on a single platform to address issues of vaccine hesitancy and resistance across five aspirational districts to improve COVID-19 immunisation numbers.
NSEF will boost up the vaccination advocacy campaign across the districts by deploying the large no. Of people by co-operating communication and facilitation of the vaccination process. Its local NGO partners will further help on reducing resistance andfears through community connect programmes and improving footfall for vaccination so that herd immunity is achieved in these districts.