COVID-19 vaccination in the tribal belts of India has been an eventful exercise. In most places, there is hesitancy and numbers are low. There are villages without a single shot administered. Inoculation is higher in this section of the population only in a handful of states. According to the 2011 census, 8.6% or about 10.4 crore Indians belong to the Scheduled Tribes.
In Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, vaccination coverage among these tribes has been satisfactory. They form a sizable part of the population in these states and there are instances of tribal-dominated districts doing better than other districts. But Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and West Bengal present the bigger picture, where the drive is yet to penetrate into the tribal heartlands. In some places, resistance caused by misconceptions is making things difficult for healthcare workers.
Tribes constitute 9.35% of Maharashtra’s population. While the state has vaccinated 38.51% of its people, figures are not as much in places these tribes reside. In districts like Nandurbar, Gadchiroli and Amaravati, the vaccination percentage is 30.33, 27.72 and 33.41, respectively. In the non-tribal districts of Pune, Nagpur and Kolhapur, this is 50.94, 51.94 and 66.64 in that order.
This story is from the June 13, 2021 edition of The Morning Standard.
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