Thread by @RohanV

I find it uncomfortable that the court gets involved in deciding some of these policy issues, but extremely useful for the court to at the very least put questions to the Centre and have them put policies on record, since they aren't otherwise explaining to citizens.

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1388032790625652737

How will manufacturers decide equity between states and the private sector?

It's been more than 10 days since the governments new "liberalised and accelerated phase 3 strategy of Covid-19 vaccination" was unveiled, and we still have no inkling. scroll.in/article/992921…

So! Finally some explanation of the government's thinking behind the new vaccine policy, in its submissions to the Supreme Court – which has say the pricing bits may be subject to a constitutional challenge:

livelaw.in/top-stories/su…

So the new system *does* have some sort of allocations built in to ensure equity, though the details of this are unclear.

(Also why do we have to go to the Supreme Court to get this?) main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2…

Seriously, read the questions that the Supreme Court has put to the Centre on its new vaccine policy here.

One serious consultation/press conference would've brought these up. It's crazy that we're taking up Supreme Court time for this stuff.

main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2…

Question from the SC: What were you guys originally planning in terms of vaccine procurement? Why don't we know already?

"Whether any studies and figures were relied upon to conclude that decentralized procurement would spur competitive markets to incentivize production and eventually drive down the prices of the vaccine in a pandemic?"