Union Minister Prakash Javadekar hits out at Maharashtra Government for "mismanagement"

Taking a dig at the Maharashtra Government led by Chief Minister Udhaav Thackeray, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar revealed that 54 lakh vaccines were sent to Maharashtra, out of which only 23 lakh vaccines were used till March 12 which signals thier(Shiv Sena's) inefficiency to run the state.

Maharashtra has once again became the epicenter of COVID-19 as the number of cases have started to rise again. Yesterday the country reported 28,903 cases out of which 17,864 were reported from Maharashtra.

Javadekar has now questioned the state government's plan and tactics to control the spread of the virus. In his tweet Javadekar has criticized the management of Maharashtra Government for the large widespread in the state and now the bad administration of the vaccine is aslo clearly seen.

Maharashtra Government had only used 23 lakh vaccines out of the total 54 lakh vaccines sent to the state, till 12th March. 56% vaccines remained unused. Now, Shiv Sena MP asks for more vaccines for the state.

First mismanagement of pandemic now poor administration of vaccines.

— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) March 17, 2021

As for the vaccination drive, around 3.5 Crore doses of vaccine has been administered in the country since January. Whereas more than 21 lakh doses were administered yesterday.