"No Vaccine, No Salary": Ujjain Civic Body Cracks Covid Whip On Employees

The Centre has made it clear that getting vaccinated for Covid is a purely voluntary.

The Ujjain Municipal Corporation today issued an order saying no salaries will be paid to those of its employees who haven't yet got their Covid vaccine shots. That will cover almost 30 per cent of the civic body's personnel, including some officers. This dictum, however, goes against the Central government's stance that inoculation against the pandemic is voluntary. The Ujjain corporation's move comes amid an apparent slackness in the nationwide vaccination drive again coronavirus. This is despite some city civic authorities including their employees in the category of frontline workers. "The state and central governments had, in the second phase, included the municipal workers in the frontline segment, ordering their vaccination. So that any untoward incident happens, their families are safe," Ujjain Municipal Commissioner Kshitij Singhal. "This because they are highly exposed. So we need to make sure they do not become the medium of infection either," he said.