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> This is not true - the govt gave Rs. 3000 crore (the asked-for amount) in aid to SII.

The government gave SII and advace towards the end of April. This was not aid. What was the government doing until?

> True, but it's likely that the government's commitment to buy 100s of millions of vaccines played no small part in giving them the confidence to scale up the way they did.

Instead of ordering doses in bulk, the government went with piecemeal orders. The scaling up would have happened much earlier if we had actually seen decisiveness on part of the government.