Adhir writes to Speaker: Let PAC meet, speak about vaccination coverage

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and steered him to allow the PAC to satisfy and speak about the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage.

Chowdhury, chief of the Congress in Lok Sabha, identified that Parliament and its committees, particularly PAC, have a “severe duty to discharge by means of discussing, deliberating and giving ideas and tips about tactics of tackling and resolving the issues lately confronting us owing to the pandemic”.

He wrote, “There were a lot of events prior to now the place, with permission or route of the Speaker, the Public Accounts Committee has met and brought up issues of bigger worry for dialogue, deliberation and making observations and suggestions thereon to the Govt to behave upon.”

“Nowadays, the coverage in opposition to vaccinating other folks for tackling Covid-19 has transform central and of maximum significance. As lives and livelihood…are dependant on an efficient vaccination coverage, I’d request you to kindly allow the PAC to satisfy and planned upon this subject material with the representatives of the Govt i.e, the Ministry of Well being, ICMR and others involved (by way of any mode, both bodily or digital, relying upon the Covid scenario),” he wrote.