“I appeal to all those who are eligible to take the vaccine. Together, let us make India COVID-19
free!”, the words of Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi which drove India into a collective
action to make India COVID-free, turning out to be one of the world’s largest vaccination drives.
Vadodara, Gujarat’s PU was not far behind in taking up this call to action, as the
University’s teaching and non-teaching staff members, students, parents and their relatives of
students collectively pushed forward the vaccination drive in a bid create a COVID-free PU and
a COVID-free India. This drive for vaccination, has proven to be even more
fruitful with the recent State and Central government announcement of commencing offline
classes in Private and Public Colleges from July 15th.

As a way of accelerating the national drive for vaccination, PU’s efforts led to 82% of the
University’s faculties receiving the vaccinations along with 70% of the students getting
their shots. What has made the University’s vaccination campaign even more significant,
is that beyond the students and faculties, the family members were also caught up in this
wave of vaccination support & encouragement. Such moving efforts to contribute to the
greater good motivated 68.40% of the students’ family members and 75% of the staff
family members to receive their shots. The main reason behind this increasing and active
participation in the vaccination drives can be attributed to the numerous efforts taken by t
he PU management in spreading vaccination awareness and assisting in the registration.

In efforts to make the entire vaccination process more seamless, the University has been
maintaining a regularly monitored and updated record of registrations and vaccinations for its
stakeholders so as to provide both pre and post-vaccination guidance. With the growing
concern over the reoccurring waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, PU created a
wave of its own, but this time bearing a positive mark on the nation and on the scope of
education, especially during this college reopening phase. 19,452 of the University’s
students positively responded to the call and complied with the vaccination registration
procedures. From a total of 63,652 student family members maintained in the record, the
drive successfully encouraged 60,392 of them to register for vaccination and 68.40% of the
registered relatives took their first dose and 24.48% received their second shot.

In addition, its total strength of 2028 teaching and non-teaching staff further carried this
flame of vaccination motivation to 4537 of their family members who successfully registered
with COWIN . From the registered family members, 72% of them were successful in
receiving their first dose while the remaining 33% received their second vaccine dose. Parul
University has always taken measures to support the national policies and campaigns which
have focused on pushing India forward. Through this vaccination initiative, the University has
ensured once again the progression of education, by ensuring the highest form of safety for
its students and faculties upon their return for offline classes. PU has gone
beyond taking precaution, to ensuring complete prevention. To pave the path for this
vaccination drive, the University’s President Dr. Devanshu was the very first person to take
the vaccine with the goal to make the entire Parul University campus COVID-19 free.