Tika Utsav was a four day mass vaccination programme for COVID-19 from April 11, 2021 to April 14, 2021 announced by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in view of the resurgence in the COVID-19 cases in the country with the aim to vaccinate maximum eligible people.
Modi in Letter to the Nation said that it is beginning of second major war against COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Mass vaccination Programme has started on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and continued till the birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar on April 14.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] In a high level Meeting Chaired by the Prime Minister with the chief minister of all the states and Union Territories he appealed to the chief ministers to organise a "Tika Utsav" or vaccine festival to inoculate so many peoples as possible for the vaccination which would help the country in vaccinating more population.
[7][8] It was aimed to vaccinate maximum number of eligible people in the country.