6,000 get jab at grain markets in Punjab

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

Besides putting in place adequate Covid-19 protocols during the ongoing procurement operations in all mandis, the state government has also started special camps to inoculate all stakeholders with vaccinating more than 6,000 eligible persons so far.

The Punjab Government has set up special covid vaccination camps in all 154 Market Committees in the state to administer vaccine to the people above the age of 45 years visiting grain markets during the current rabi marketing season.

Punjab Mandi Board Chairman Lal Singh said 6,000 beneficiaries, including farmers who were there to get their crop procured, arhtiyas, labourers and other eligible persons were vaccinated. He further said Patiala was leading in the vaccination drive, where 1,230 persons were inoculated followed by Ferozepur and Bathinda mandis where 1,179 and 800 persons got vaccinated during the ongoing procurement season.

To further motivate the farmers, arhtiyas, labourers and staff of procurement agencies for vaccination, the Chairman said Mandi Board officials at the district level are also visiting these special camps to cover maximum eligible persons under the vaccination drive so that to ensure smooth and hassle-free procurement on one hand and safety and wellbeing of all stakeholders on the other during the current marketing season.