According to the Ministry the delay is owing to more stringent testing of the polio vaccination which will be dispatched to states for public use after clearance from the National Testing Laboratory for each batch. The Ministry's clarification comes in response to a report that stated that there is a shortage of polio vaccines. The government has not postponed the NID indefinitely as wrongly reported in the media. Regarding Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) there is neither shortage of IPV nor any shortage of funds for its procurement for Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) in the country it stated. As per a
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