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Congress claims UIP was started by Rajiv Gandhi. Whereas it was actually started by the Morarji Desai government in 1978. Rajiv Gandhi govt renamed it in 1985 and declared its expansion pan India. But from 1985 to 2005, number of vaccinated children increased by just 2%.
The percentage of fully vaccinated children limped along from 44% in 2005-06 to just under 65% in 2014.
Finally in Dec 2014 it was taken into the fast lane with Mission Indradhanush: Immunisation of 100% children by 2020 is now within striking distance. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/300419/immunisation-in-india-and-the-women-behind-it.html
Finally in Dec 2014 it was taken into the fast lane with Mission Indradhanush: Immunisation of 100% children by 2020 is now within striking distance. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/300419/immunisation-in-india-and-the-women-behind-it.html
Under Mission Indradhanush, the percentage of vaccinated children is improving at 6.5% per year. By 2018, in just three years it had sharply improved with govt systematically focusing on worst affected districts. In 2019-end an even more intensive Indradhanush 2.0 was launched.
Compare the 18.5% increase in vaccination in three years to 18% in the preceding ten and 2% in the ten years before that. One extraordinary man made it a mission to save millions of children from dying due to preventable diseases. And that man was obviously not Rajiv Gandhi.
