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The state food, public distribution and consumer affairs department on Monday conceded that the flagship petrol subsidy scheme launched by the state government two years ago has failed to evoke encouraging response. Department’s secretary Amitabh Kaushal said they would soon review the scheme and evaluate the reasons behind the poor response to decide on its future course.

The campaign shall be observed in the district till Friday, in which camps have been set up to provide benefits of as many as 27 schemes to the beneficiaries.

This works out to about 6% less than the national coverage; last ‘free precaution dose’ mega-vax drive on Sept 28; more than 23 lakh people in city are still to take the dose

Vaccination drive was held in 78 centres, and there were arrangements for spot registration.

Insistence on ‘zero infections’ left authorities unable to act swiftly when Omicron variant of coronavirus arrived, experts say.