The central government announced that the vaccination drive for senior citizens will commence next month. However, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is still waiting for their guidelines on these vaccinations of more than 30 lakh senior citizens. 

There are 1.7 lakh health care workers and 1.9 lakh frontline workers registered with the BMC. But the BMC doesn’t have any fool proof data of the senior citizens. Contacting senior citizens and asking them to register on the CoWin app will be a tough job. “We are waiting for the guidelines from the centre. Maybe they will ask us to carry the drive as per the voters’ ID. But we have some online data available which we collected through the ‘My Family, My Responsibility’ drive,” said Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner of the BMC.