Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed on Monday that India’s universal immunisation programme had been languishing before he arrived on the scene and transformed it in 2014. “It was not that the immunisation programme was not running…. But they didn’t achieve any success,” Modi, known for dismissing the achievements of previous governments, said in Mathura, western Uttar Pradesh. I formulated new strategies in 2014 and started Mission Indradhanush. Modi, who had started Mission Indradhanush to strengthen the programme, reminded his audience that his government had added five new vaccines.

Source: The Telegraph February 11, 2019 22:18 UTC