bengaluru from making vaccines available at left wing extremists lwe areas to managing crowds at sites and lending cold chain facilities to ensuring undisrupted power supply at least 19 ministries and 23 different departments other than the health ministry and departments have been given specific roles to ensure smooth vaccine rollout across the country read alsodaily covid deaths fall to 7month low of 216daily deaths from covid19 in india dipped to a sevenmonth low as 216 fatalities were recorded in the country on saturday the lowest since june 1 maharashtra continued to record the highest number of deaths in the country with 51 reported on saturday bengal had the second highest toll at 28bharat biotechs covaxin too gets nod for emergency useindias vaccine rollout will begin with the availability of two jabs oxfordastra zenecas covishield and bharat biotechs homegrown covaxin with the drugs controller general of india expected to issue final approvals on sunday covishield maker serum institute has offered a price of rs 225250covid vaccine to be free for most prioritised beneficiaries vardhanthe vaccine against covid 19 will be provided free to most prioritised beneficiaries including one crore healthcare and two crore frontline workers health minister harsh vardhan said official sources said various options like offering a subsidised price and use of ayushman bharat insurance areaccording to the ministry of health and family welfare various ministries and departments are converging at national level to support vaccination under the guidance of the national expert group on vaccine administration for covid19 negvacarguing that the highest level of political and administrative ownership commitment and support is vital for successful planning and implementation of covid19 vaccination the ministry said in the sop for vaccination that coordination mechanisms at national state district and block levels have been and that the individual ministries have been communicated about the support required in vaccine rolloutsite identificationat least four departments urban development revenue pwd public health engineering have been told to help in vaccination site identification aside from other responsibilities although india has a network of more than 82 lakh sites covid vaccination has special requirements given the need for social distancing as reported by toi earlierkeeping this in mind various departments have been roped in to identify additional sites whereever needed wherever possible sites part of the universal immunisation programme uip will be utilised for inoculation one official saidcold storagealso even as there are more than 28900 cold chain points and more than 85000 equipment as part of uip the ministry has been reiterating the need to augment this network in this regard the departments of animal husbandry and food and civil supplies have been roped in logistics site mgtaccording to the sop pwd rural urban development public health engineering departments among others will look at logistics including drinking water supply at vaccination sites preparation of the sites etcthe rural development department for instance has been told to use self help groups shgs to aid in logistics management including vaccine site preparation cleaning