COVID-19 Impact: IIM Calcutta conducts vaccination drive for students

IIM Calcutta is mulling to recall another 25 per cent of students to the campus this month, taking the percentage of recalled students to 75 per cent.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta has launched a vaccination drive on its campus on August 17. The institute arranged the vaccination drive after it emerged in a survey that most of the students who have been recalled were partially vaccinated. According to the reports, IIM Calcutta is calling students of the two-year MBA programme back to the campus. Here, students will be attending online classes from hostels. In order to facilitate the same and curb the chances of COVID-19 spread, the institute is insisting students on having both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Talking about the vaccination drive, Manish Thakur, dean (new initiatives and external relations) and a member of the COVID committee of the IIM, said, “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.” Information shared by the secretary of the students’ council, Lokesh Agarwal, a total of 650 students have been called back. Out of the total, 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.