'Helps Disseminate Awareness Message': Govt Defends PM Modi's Photo On Covid Certificate
It is the moral and ethical responsibility of the government to ensure that such critical messages are disseminated to people in the most effective manner, she said.
New Delhi: The Modi government has been criticized for the photo of the Prime Minister on the Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates. In response, on Tuesday, the Rajya Sabha was told that the photo along with the words of the prime minister in vaccination certificates reinforce the message for creating awareness about following Covid-appropriate behaviour even after inoculation.
Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar, in a written reply, said, that the format of the Covid-19 vaccination certificates being issued from CoWIN are standardised and conform to the evolving WHO guidance on verifiable inoculation certificates.
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This came as a response after being asked whether it was necessary and compulsory to print photographs of the prime minister on the Covid vaccination certificate. She said that in the context of the pandemic, preventing the disease has become the most essential and for that reminding people of the need to follow Covid-appropriate behaviours has become very important.
"The photograph along with the message of the prime minister in the vaccination certificates reinforces the message for creating awareness about the importance of following COVID-19 appropriate behaviour even after vaccination, in the larger public interest," Pawar said according to PTI.
"The format of vaccination certificate, compliant with WHO norms for vaccination certificates, including the message and presentation about the importance of following Covid-appropriate behaviour even after vaccination, hence, this has been decided keeping all these factors in consideration.
It is the moral and ethical responsibility of the government to ensure that such critical messages are disseminated to people in the most effective manner, she said.
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