‘Tika Utsav’ a damp squib in Bihar due to acute vaccine shortage

Before the announcement of “Tika Utsav”, the state had been vaccinating around 2.5 lakh people each day. Post announcement, the government planned to speed up the campaign further by targeting some four lakh beneficiaries each day but the plan has proved to be a big failure in the absence of sufficient doses of vaccines. The four-day “Tika Utsav” began on 11 April.