VACCINATION

C.N. Vaze
Chartered Accountant

Today, corona and vaccination are hitting the front pages of all newspapers. Of course, of late Sachin Waze has
started taking precedence over these two. But the main topic of discussion among the general public is still corona
and vaccination.

Vaccination stock is over!

Mismanagement at corona vaccination camps;
Vaccine not effective!
Man catches corona despite vaccination;
Bogus and adulterated vaccination stocks held!
Long queues at vaccination centres.

All these reports revolve around the corona virus. And people are flocking to the centres to avail of the facility offered
by the Government.

People are taking leave from work, keeping aside other important tasks, to get vaccinated. However, one particular
community has no time to take the vaccine. For them, certain things are more important than even their lives and
health. This community is engaged in commercial activity but functions like NGOs.

They were keen to keep their offices open even during the pandemic. They incurred heavy expenditure to ensure that
their staff should be able to work from home. They worked day and night to meet the deadlines for their clients. Of
course, their clients always take it for granted that this community’s charges are never to be paid promptly. And the
NGOs consider it inhuman to ask for fees during the pandemic. As soon as the lockdown was relaxed and the
unlocking process started, the same clients travelled for ‘outings’. Clients were sure that the NGO would be slogging
for them and sacrifice everything for the clients. Not only that, the clients were also sure that since the fees are not
received, the NGOs would borrow from banks to run their show. On top of it, the alma mater of these NGOs would tie
up with banks and other financial institutions to offer credit facilities for them. And the NGOs kept on slogging,
forgetting everything happening around them.

After some time, the Government conducted a review and felt that almost every citizen of the country should get
vaccinated. So, it announced the date for closure of vaccination centres.

Suddenly, the NGO community woke up and started representing to the Government for extension of time. They
started begging, praying and a few of them even thought of filing writ petitions. They could produce the Object clause
of the constitution of many NGOs which prohibited doing things in time. Their object was to start the work only at the
eleventh hour, issue certificates based on inadequate data, risk their own licence, work without asking for payment of
fees and so on.

Their ‘incidental’ object was to carry all tensions for their clients, sacrifice their personal lives and health, lose their
sleep and fight for getting extension of time.

These NGOs are always making some ‘submission’ or other. In the process, they suffer from the virus of
‘submissiveness’. They have lost the energy to be assertive.

The researchers should come out with a new vaccine for the NGOs to make them immune from the virus called
‘submissiveness’.

Note : In case the NGOs described in this article resemble any professional group, it is only a coincidence.