Covid: Vaccination drive for students at IIM Calcutta – Telegraph India

Calcutta launched a vaccination drive on its campus on Tuesday after it emerged in a survey that most of the students who have been recalled were partially vaccinated.

The institute, which is calling students of the two-year MBA programme back to the campus so they could attend online classes from hostels, is insisting students on having both doses.

Students in groups are undergoing vaccination in a facility set up on the campus.

“The survey revealed that most of the students have yet to receive the second jab. Vaccination is seen as an antidote to Covid. The students’ council that carried out the survey has initiated the drive,” said Manish Thakur, dean (new initiatives and external relations) and a member of the Covid committee of the IIM.

Lokesh Agarwal, the secretary of the students’ council, said of the 650 students who have been called back, 500 have not taken the second jab.

“The hostel staff will be inoculated, too. Most of them have only taken the first dose,” Agarwal said.

The institute did not cite vaccination as a condition before letting all the 80 one-year MBA executive programme students and 50 per cent of the students of the two-year programme enter hostels and attend online classes last month.

The Telegraph had reported last Thursday that with more students willing to return to campus because of connectivity woes at home, the institute is now advising all to get vaccinated.

The institute has decided to recall another 25 per cent of students to the campus this month, taking the percentage of recalled students to 75 per cent.