bhubaneswar noting that odisha has not been able to observe tika ustav properly due to low and uncertain supply of vaccines the state government on monday urged the centre to urgently provide it at least 25 lakh doses of vaccines as an emergency measurethis was stated by odisha health and family welfare minister n k das who wrote the second letter to union health minister harsh vardhan in less than seven dayswe are unable to observe the tika ustav properly for extremely low and erratic supply of covid19 vaccines to the state das said in the letter to vardhanlike the opening day tika utsav functioned below capacity in odisha mondaya senior official at the health and family welfare department said that as many as 140061 people were inoculated on monday at 824 vaccination sitesinoculation drive was conducted at over 1400 session sites for health workers frontline workers senior citizens and people above 45 yearson sunday 900 centres out of this remained closed due to nonavailability of the vaccine doseson monday though the situation was a little better but the special vaccination drive could take place at 824 centres out of over 1400 of themstating that odisha has received 4808650 doses of vaccines comprising 4271870 doses of covisheild and 336780 covaxin the minister had said in the morning that presently there is nil stock in state vaccine stores svs region vaccine store rds and district vaccine store dvshowever only 159439 doses of covishield and 71000 doses of covaxin are available in the pipeline across the statei would like to inform you that on april 3 odisha held 1476 vaccination sessions and vaccinated 271480 beneficiaries in a single dayhowever since then due to short and uncertain supply of vaccines from union health ministry we have been forced to close about half over 700 of our vaccination centres das told vardhan in the letterdas also said that you will appreciate that with such low and uncertain supplies of vaccines it is impossible for us to schedule sessions in advance or mobilize people with confidencehence das said the states daily utilisation has come down to 1 lakh though odisha has capacity for doing 3 lakh vaccinations dailyhe said it is requested to urgently supply at least 10 days stock of covisheild 25 lakh doses as an emergency measure to enable us to plan sessions and undertake the vaccination programme effectivelya senior official of the state health department later in the day said that the state has received 271 lakh doses of covishield on monday